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Summary Of The Great Gatsby

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Once upon a time, there was a young man named Nick Carraway. Nick moved from his old home in Minnesota to the West Egg in Long Island, New York. He lived next to a very mysterious man named Gatsby who lived in the most beautiful house on the Egg. Nick was very interested in meeting this Gatsby person and getting to know him. Nick’s cousin Daisy and her husband Tom lived across the river on the East Egg. Nick would go visit them often at their house. One day when Nick is on his way back to his house, he sees Gatsby standing by the water with his arms stretched out toward a green light the appears to be coming from Daisy and Tom's dock. One day Nick takes a train ride with Tom into the city. On this day Nick finds out that Tom is cheating on Daisy with a girl named Myrtle who is …show more content…

So one day, Gatsby, Nick, Daisy, and Tom are at Toms house and he notices the sparks flying between Daisy and Gatsby. The four of them decide to take a trip into the city because it is so hot out. Gatsby and Daisy drive together and Tom and Nick ride together. They decide to get a suite at the plaza and spend the afternoon there. Tom lashes out and begins to accuse Gatsby of having an affair with Daisy. To try and find trust within Daisy, Tom makes her ride back to the house alone with Gatsby. Daisy and Gatsby are driving ahead of Nick and Tom, driving through what is known as the “valley of ashes”. Daisy who is driving the vehicle isn’t paying attention, accidentally hits and kills Myrtle. Not knowing she is the girl who Tom is having an affair with, her and Gatsby speed off. With Tom and Nick not too far behind them, they find Mystle lying in the road dead. They both assume that Gatsby was driving and that he is responsible for Myrtle's death. Tom wants revenge on Gatsby for trying to take his wife and killing his mistress. Nick, knowing this, tells Gatsby that he need to forget about Daisy and move on, but Gatsby

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This idea has him doing anything and everything for a girl, Daisy Buchanan, who he has been in love with for five years. Although the readers know that he doesn’t have a chance with her, Daisy leads Gatsby to think he does. Later in the novel Daisys abusive husband, Tom, feels like he is losing control and goes crazy leading him to blame Gatsby for the death of Myrtle. Meanwhile, when all of this is happening, Nick does not advise his friend about

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Nick and Gatsby become close friends and learns that he loves his Daisy. Throughout the story Nick learns more and more secrets about these characters until the truth came out. Once the truth came out about Daisy and Gatsby’s love, in the heat of the moment, Daisy runs over Tom’s mistress Myrtle, and not long after Gatsby dies too. In both stories the main characters search for their true love by sacrificing a part of themselves and conquering trouble.

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Gatsby later told Nick that “she [Daisy] was very nervous and she thought it would steady her to drive” (Fitzgerald, 143). At this point, Daisy committed manslaughter. Myrtle Wilson, thinking Tom was driving the car and was going to rescue her from her husband, jumps out in front of the car. Instead of stopping, “Daisy stepped on it [the gas]” (Fitzgerald, 144). Myrtle is killed on impact, which destroys Tom once he found out his lover was murdered.

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There, conflict arises between Tom and Gatsby, and their world of fantasy becomes a world of rivalry and strife. In the midst of conflict, Myrtle Wilson is struck and killed by an oncoming vehicle. Nick later learns this vehicle to have been driven by Daisy; however, Gatsby shoulders the blame. Nick’s morality is tried one last time, as he must decide whether or not to let Gatsby take the blame for such a horrible incident. Nick ultimately decides to leave Gatsby despite the previous knowledge he acquired.

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to which Tom immediately tries to make excuses for why he told the man of gatsby and why he is now dead. Tom is said to have a defensive tone which makes it seem he is trying to guilt trip Nick. Doing so by talking of the grief he feels himself and how bad it made him feel to hear of Gatsby's death. As if to make reasons for his greed and why he did the things he did. Nick writes about how he feels about Daisy and Tom now and how he knows the way they see things their actions were justified and unselfish- stating that they can't see the truth to it all.

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At the beginning of the chapter, Nick notices that Gatsby has ceased having his iconic parties, and soon learns that it is because Gatsby no longer needs them to attract Daisy 's attention. On the hottest day of the summer, Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Jordan and Nick all get together at the Buchanan house for lunch. Throughout the course of the afternoon, Tom’s suspicions are solidified when he realises that Daisy and Gatsby are having an affair, and from then on he sets out to win her back. Upon Daisy’s request, they decide to go to New York for the day, and Nick rides with Jordan and Tom in Gatsby’s car, while Gatsby and Daisy ride together in Tom’s car. While stopping for gas, Tom and Nick learn that Mr. Wilson is aware of his wife’s infidelity

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He leaves the two alone after realizing that they are so entranced with each other. Another example is when Nick kept all of his thoughts about the affair to himself. If he would have told Daisy, many of the problems would have been resolved. She would leave Tom for Gatsby. Then Tom could be with Myrtle instead of her tragically dying outside her husband’s shop.

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