The Great Gatsby Summary

PLOT SUMMARY:

• Nick notices that Gatsby has stopped throwing his extravagant parties, and soon discovers that he did so because Jay doesn’t need to attract Daisy anymore.

• Later, on the “hottest day of the summer”, Nick, Tom, Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan all meet at the Buchanan house for lunch.

• Throughout this, Tom realizes Daisy and Gatsby’s affair, and decides upon “winning her back”.

• Daisy then requests to going to New York for the day, which they all oblige to doing.

• When they stop for gas, they learn that Myrtle’s husband, Mr. Wilson, is aware that his wife is cheating, and that he plans to move to the West with her.

• When they arrive to New York, they book a suite at the Plaza Hotel.

• Tom here confronts Gatsby about his affair

He soon figured out of his wife’s infidelity, and upon doing so, quickly decided to move. This shows us that Wilson cares for his wife greatly, because he does not want to lose her to another, and that he is willing to prevent it at all costs.qwer

SETTING:

PHYSICAL:

“And we all took the less explicable step of engaging the parlor of a suite in the Plaza Hotel.” (Fitzgerald 126)

For the most part, in this chapter, the group spends their time at the hotel. This hotel gives you a sense of the unknown. The group are in a completely different environment than they are used to, and it shows us that they themselves don’t know what is about to transpire.

POLITICAL:

“Daisy, that’s all over now,” he said earnestly. “It doesn’t matter any more. Just tell him the truth—that you never loved him—and it’s all wiped out forever.” (Fitzgerald 132)

Daisy, ultimately, has the power. Daisy has the choice to leave Tom and stay with Gatsby, or vice-versa. Tom and Gatsby may be able to sway her decision, but in the end it all comes down to her.

PSYCHOLOGICAL:

“She hesitated. Her eyes fell on Jordan and me with a sort of appeal, as though she realized at last what she was doing—and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all.” (Fitzgerald

Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead. Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind. Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. But there was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age. As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat’s shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her