The Great Gatsby Structure

The Author and His Times: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald more commonly called just F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896. Fitzgerald was son of Edward his father and Mollie Mcquillan. Edward was a somewhat successful businessman and mother was daughter of a wealthy Irish immigrant who made a fortune in the wholesale grocery business. They lived in Minnesota when his fathers business collapsed in 1897. Fitzgerald went to Princeton but later dropped out to join the army. In the fear he might die in WWI and his literary dreams not met he wrote The Romantic Egotist and although never published it is believed that it inspired him to Write more Novels in the years to come. While in the army Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre his future wife.

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.” In this sentence he starts describing Gatsby but soon is referencing a machine that measure earthquakes.
Major conflict: Gatsby has acquired a fortune in order to win the hand in marriage of Daisy Buchanan but his past stands in the way.
Rising Action: Gatsby huge parties, fascination with nick and the meeting between Gatsby and Daisy raise interest in the first half of the story.
Climax: There are two possible climaxes of which neither is bigger in terms of magnitude of the event. One event is the meeting between Daisy and Gatsby in chapter 5-6. The other possible climax is the confrontation between Gatsby and Tom in the Plaza hotel in chapter 7.
Falling Action: The rejection of Gatsby by Daisy, the death of Myrtle and murder of Gatsby are all parts of the falling

He rents the small house next to Gatsby and helps reunite Gatsby and Daisy after 5 years of being separated.. Nick's Midwestern thought process makes the East an unsettling place, and he becomes disillusioned with how wealthy people like the Buchanans live their lives. Nicks honest and tolerant personality often makes him a confidant or those with troubling secrets.
Daisy Buchanan: Nick’s cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves. As a young woman in Louisville before the war, Daisy was chased after by a number of officers, including Gatsby. She fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him. However, Daisy need to be loved constantly, and when a wealthy, powerful young man named Tom Buchanan asked her to marry him, Daisy decided not to wait for Gatsby after all. Now a “beautiful fool”, Daisy lives with Tom across from Gatsby in East Egg district of Long Island. She is arrogant and somewhat cynical, and behaves superficially to mask her pain of her husbands affair.
Jordan Baker: Daisy’s friend and the woman with who Nick becomes romantically involved during the course of the novel. She is a competitive golfer and represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s. She is cynical, boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but also dishonest. Jordan showed this when she cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually bends the