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Summary Of The Great Gatsby

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Nick Carraway, moves to East Coast Manhattan where he rents a home in West Egg. Nick is reconnected with his cousin Daisy, her husband Tom, and Jordan Baker in East Egg. Later, Nick to meet Tom’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Tom, Nick, and Myrtle go at a party that closes with Tom punching Myrtle in the face. Nick meets his next-door neighbor, Jay Gatsby, a very rich man who lives in a giant mansion and hosts lavish parties every week. Gatsby introduces Nick to his business partner, Meyer Wolfshiem.Nick becomes acquainted with Jordan and learns that Gatsby and Daisy were past lovers, and that Gatsby would like to reunite with Daisy. Nick plans an invitation for Daisy to a tea party so that Gatsby can meet with Daisy. Daisy and Gatsby rekindle their relationship and start an affair.Later, Tom and Daisy head to one of Gatsby’s extravagant parties where Daisy is discomforte by the display of wealth, and Tom concludes that Gatsby’s money was acquired through crime. …show more content…

James’ ambitions were always, creating Jay Gatsby to transform himself into an upper class man - A metaphor for the American Dream. Nick, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, and Jordan get together for lunch devising a plan to tell Tom about Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship. Gatsby and Daisy decide to discuss with Tom in Manhattan .The five of them get a suite at the Plaza Hotel where the secret, with many others, are revealed. Gatsby declares that Daisy is in love with him and not Tom. Tom counters Gatsby by discussing his conclusion that Gatsby is involved in criminal activities. Gatsby tells Daisy to break her relationship with Tom completely, and say that she never loved

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He requests they all go to New York City. When they meet at the Plaza Hotel, Tom and Gatsby get into an argument about Daisy. Gatsby explains Tom that Daisy never loved Tom and has solely loved him. “She never loved you, do you hear?” he cried.

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Jay Gatsby, at one of Gatsby’s spectacular weekend parties. Upon spending time with Gatsby, Nick discovers that all of Gatsby’s luxuries are purely existing due to the fact that he wants to woo a married woman. Gatsby’s love interest just so happen to be Nick’s cousin Daisy. Gatsby finds no fault in chasing after his former love, even though she is bonded to Tom through marriage. The waste displayed through Gatsby’s extravagant additions to Nick’s property show Gatsby’s lack of understanding and compassion for the less-fortunate in the desolation of the nineteen-twenties.

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Gatsby began talking about how he had met Daisy, and how when he first kissed her he knew he had wanted to be with this girl forever…”He knew when he had kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.” Tom realises he is beginning to slip away from both of the women in his life. He is losing both of them. Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and Nick all go to Tom and Daisy’s house where Daisy was supposed to confess her feelings for Gatsby. But instead they then take a ride to a Plaza hotel where things become very violent and Daisy says she loves Gatsby

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In chapter 5, Nick discusses having Daisy over with Gatsby. The following day Nick invites Daisy and specifies not to bring Tom with her. Gatsby is exceedingly nervous and almost leaves Nicks house, when Nick stops him. Once Daisy shows up everything is very awkward at first but then Nick leaves claiming he has to attend to some work of his, leaving Daisy and Gatsby to catch up with one another.

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: Nick Carraway is a man who is seeking to learn about the bond business so he heads to New York to learn more. There he meets a man known as Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire who likes to throw spectacular parties. There, Gatsby tells Nick that he is deeply mad in love with Daisy, Nick’s sister. Unfortunately Daisy is already married to Tom Buchanan, so Nick helps Gatsby begin an affair with Daisy. During that time, Tom is cheating on Daisy with a woman named Myrtle.

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He reunited with his cousin along with becoming friends with his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Nick is brought into Gatsby’s plan to fix his relationship with the love of his life Daisy Buchanan, who is Nick’s cousin and his former lover. Gatsby and Daisy begin to have an affair while Daisy’s husband Tom is having an affair with a young woman named Myrtle. On Daisy 's drive home one night she hits and kills Myrtle not knowing that her husband, Tom, was having an affair

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Nick Carraway, the narrator and former WWI soldier, moved east and decided to become a bond trader on Wall Street in 1922. Nick’s apartment is between several mansions, including the mansions of his neighbor Jay Gatsby and his cousin Daisy Buchanan. Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan invite Nick over for dinner, who haven’t seen Nick since before the war. Nick notices that Tom has the same aggressive and racist personality as when they went to college together, and is more interested to hear about sweet Daisy’s life. One day, Nick takes a train to New York with Tom and his mistress Myrtle Wilson (both are cheating on each other’s spouses).

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In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man named Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island. After arriving Nick travels over to East Egg where his cousin, Daisy, is located just across the bay. Nick comes to find out his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, is a past lover of Daisy. He also discovers this lover has spent his entire life rebuilding himself to be more acceptable for her. Due to Nick’s strict upbringings he does not criticize others, making him of perfect use to Daisy and Gatsby.

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It was hot in the room and all of them had been drinking. After little conversation, Gatsby ended up yelling at Tom saying that Daisy never loved him. Tom wouldn’t have that. He insisted that Gatsby was wrong and that Daisy did love him. This ended with all of them storming out of the hotel and going separate ways.

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This si when Jay loses his cool. He yells and pins Tom against the wall and makes himself seem like a fool. Described in Chapter 7 Gatsby “looked–and this is said in all contempt for the babbled slander of his garden–as if he had “killed a man.” This showed that Gatsby truly was a bad man and he was just hiding well throughout the whole story. When Daisy noticed this she immediately made up her mind that she wanted to be with

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He wants to reconnect with her even though she is currently married to one of the richest men in society, Tom Buchanan. When Nick Carraway, the novels narrator and Gatsby’s neighbor in West Egg, first meets Gatsby he thinks that he is another one of those rich people who he would never be able to see eye to eye with. Nick soon learns that Gatsby does not come from ‘old money’ and that he is different from others, so there is a chance for a friendship.

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In the first chapter of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway goes to visit his cousin Daisy in the East Egg. When he first arrives, he meets Tom Buchanan, Daisy’s husband. Upon entering the house, he finds Daisy with her friend Jordan Baker. They all have dinner together and during that time, Nick finds out that Tom is cheating on Daisy. After dinner, when Jordan and Tom are gone, Nick and Daisy talk and Daisy mentions her child.

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Jordan tells Nick that Gatsby and Daisy used to date, but after Gatsby went off to war, Daisy couldn’t wait anymore, married Tom, and Gatsby’s been looking ever since for someone who knows Daisy. Nick hosts a tea party for Daisy and Gatsby to get together, they start awkward with each other but end up being very close and head to Gatsby’s house and show off everything Gatsby has. The reader then learns that Gatsby isn’t his real name but Jay Gats, he is from a poor family but ran away and met up with a business owner named Dan Cody, Cody teaches Gatsby how to be a gentleman, Gatsby changes his whole identity and meets Daisy who he falls in love with. Tom and Daisy attend Gatsby’s party one night, but Daisy runs off with Gatsby alone, Tom doesn’t like Gatsby at all because of this. Nick rides over to Daisy’s house where Gatsby and Jordan already are, they head into the city in two cars one with Gatsby and Daisy, while the other with Tom, Nick, and Jordan, at the apartment, Tom and Gatsby get into a heated argument over Daisy where Gatsby exposes that he is not Jay

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However, this time Gatsby became filthy rich by selling illegal alcohol. He then use this money to buy a mansion across Daisy’s house. Gatsby host big parties in his mansion hoping Daisy would come. However, until this day Daisy does not know that Gatsby is back and that he lives across her house. Gatsby was desperate to see Daisy so he ask his neighbor, Nick, for help which happens to be Daisy’s cousin if he can take Daisy to Gatsby’s house.

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The Great Gatsby Literary Analysis “They were careless people…” says Nick Carraway, the narrator of The Great Gatsby. In a story depicting the 1920s during a time of prosperity, growth, and the emergence of the America as a major global power, this statement may seem to be contrary. But in reality, Nick Carraway’s description of his friends and the people he knew, was not only true, but is an indication of those who were striving for the American dream. F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that the American Dream is foolish, the people who pursue it are immoral and reckless, and this pursuit is futile. First, F. Scott Fitzgerald proposes that the American dream is foolish.

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