How To Write A Book Report For The Great Gatsby

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

A seemingly easy read, The Great Gatsby has won over critics around the world, and rightfully so, has become one of today's greatest classics due to its complex literary content. The narrator of the novel, Nick Carraway, grew up in the Midwestern United States and went to school at Yale University. Returning home after traveling a great deal, he is discontent and decides to move to the East in 1922, renting a house in Long Island's West Egg section. Jay Gatsby is a wealthy neighbor living next door in a lavish mansion where he holds many extravagant weekend parties. His name is mentioned while Nick is visiting a relative, Daisy. As it turns out, Jay Gatsby …show more content…

Jay and Daisy leave to drive back to Long Island together with her driving Gatsby's car "to calm her down" when she accidentally hits and kills Tom's mistress. The car doesn't stop after the accident and speeds on towards Long Island. Gatsby's charm has faded with his exposed corruption. While Nick goes off to work in New York City the next day, the dead woman's vengeful husband, told that it had been Gatsby's car that killed his wife by a vengeful Tom Buchanan, shoots Gatsby to death in his own swimming pool and then kills …show more content…

However, the novel loses nothing by this; it's concise and written with such mastery that the reader misses nothing. At first the novel feels light and easy, but as I read on I feel into it and became increasingly interested in the lives of the characters. Fitzgerald draws the reader into the book, and it soon becomes clear that its light description of the life of the rich in the Twenties is merely a cover for a deeper examination of the pettiness of human psyche. Fitzgerald expresses his bias against the extravagance of the rich through Nick's denouncement of his friends' and neighbors' way of life. Interestingly, however, is the fact that Fitzgerald was not like Nick in real life, but lived lavishly like the

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