How To Write A Brief Summary Of The Great Gatsby

This novel is about Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in 1922. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island. The neighborhood is wealthy but unfashionable and populated by new rich people. These people have made their fortunes incredibly recently with no time to establish social connections, and are prone to flaunt their wealth around. Nick’s neighbor is Jay Gatsby, he throws parties every Saturday night. But Nick is unlike the other people of West Egg, this is because he has social connections in East Egg, which is a fashionable area of Long Island which is where the established upper class live. One evening Nick drives out to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband Tom.

As time progresses, nick eventually gains an invitation to one of GAtsby’s legendary parties. There he bumps into Jordan and they both meet Gatsby who later confesses to Jordan that he knew Daisy back in Louisville and his deeply and hopelessly in love with her. He also states that his extravagant way of life is just a way for him to impress her. Jordan then tells Nick and he has both Daisy and Gatsby over for tea. Through this, they rekindle their relationship and begin an affair. Not long after this affair begins, Daisy’s husband Tom gets suspicious of her relationship with Gatsby. One day Gatsby had lunch at the Buchanan’s house and he stared at Daisy with a deep and undisguised passion. Through this Tom realizes that Gatsby is madly in love with her. His is incredibly enraged that his wife could be unfaithful to him. Tom then tells Daisy that gatsby is a criminal and Daisy realizes that her allegiance is to Tom. Tom scornfully sends Daisy back to East Egg with Gatsby. Later Daisy is driving Gatsby’s car and gets in a wreck with Myrtle. Myrtle does not survive and Gatsby took the blame for Daisy. Tom then went to George, Myrtle's husband, and told him that Gatsby was the one who killed his