The Great Gatsby Report

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Published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby tells the story of Jay Gatsby through the narrator Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s new neighbor. The novel mostly takes place in West Egg which is just outside of New York City. West Egg is the area where people of “new money” live as opposed to the people of “old money” who live across the river in East Egg. Gatsby has the biggest mansion, where he throws the biggest parties with the most people, in West Egg. Nick lives right next door to Gatsby in a small, simple house. Directly across the river from Gatsby, not coincidentally, lives Daisy Buchanan, the love of Gatsby’s life. Gatsby has thought of nothing but being with Daisy again for five years. Unfortunately for Gatsby, Daisy is now married