The book starts off with the narrator Nick Carraway. He is from Minnesota and in 1992 he moves to NYC in the summer. He starts by giving us advices that his father told him about not to make fun of people what so ever. Daisy Buchanan is Nick’s cousin; she is married to Tom Buchanan. Jordan Baker is Daisy’s close friend. Daisy Baker falls in love with Nick, and he loves her back. He goes to NYC to study about the bond business. Nick lives in the West Egg, but his cousin Daisy lives in the East Egg, Long Island, NY. East Egg is where the upper class people live in, unlike the West Egg. Nick goes and visits his cousin Daisy in East egg for dinner with her husband as well. Her husband was Nick’s friend from lectures they together in Yale. When he goes to their house, there he meets Jordan Baker. Jordan talks to Nick about Daisy and Tom’s marriage. Jordan tells him that Tom has affairs with another woman, Myrtle Wilson. She lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and NYC. Nick goes to NYC with tom and Myrtle to an offensive, rude, loud party in an apartment. That apartment as well is where Tom and Myrtle share together. Later on Tom breaks Myrtle’s nose because she mocks him about Daisy. That shows us that Tom is an aggressive, low tempered man. Later on in the days Nick gets a surprise invitation to one of Gatsby’s famous parties. When he goes there he meets Jordan Baker at the party, then after a while they meet Gatsby. Gatsby is a young man who has an effect on an English accent, extraordinary, amazing smile, and he uses the word “old sport” a lot and calls everyone that too. Jordan talks to Nick and explains to him everything about Gatsby. Gatsby spends mo... ... middle of paper ... ... Nick makes a small funeral for Gatsby and Daisy does not attend it. He took the blame for her, and he is dead all because of her, he sacrificed for her. She and Tom decide to travel and take off. Also Nick breaks up with Jordan, and he moves back to Midwest because he has had enough of these people, and hates the people that were close to Gatsby and for bareness, emptiness, and cold heart they have of the life in the middle of the wealthy on the East Coast. Nick realizes, and reveals that Gatsby’s dream of Daisy was ruined by money and un-loyalty, dishonestly. Daisy all she cared about is wealth, she chased after the men that have a lot of money. Even though Gatsby has control, influence, and authority to change his dreams into making it into real life for him this is what Nicks says makes him a good man. Now both Gatsby’s dream and the American Dream are over.
It is New York in the 1920s. Nick Carraway moves to the West Egg from Minnesota. He lives in a small house next to Jay Gatsby, a mysterious man who throws lavish parties, and decides he wants to know more about him. Then conflicts ensue about affairs and the secrets about all of the characters’ pasts. Nick, Daisy, and Tom (Daisy’s husband) “hang out” and later on, Gatsby joins on their travels. One day, when they are on an outing, Daisy hits Myrtle (Tom’s mistress) accidentally with Gatsby’s car and Myrtle dies. Tom then assures Daisy that they will cover up who killed Myrtle. Wilson thinks Gatsby killed his wife, so in a fit of madness goes to Gatsby’s house and kills him and
A part of the novel that had heavy effect on Nick Carraway was when he hides Toms secrets and as well as Daisy and Gatsby’s. Tom reveals that he has an affair with another woman named Myrtle, but Nick doesn't tell daisy about it. Also, Gatsby was Daisy’s first love. Nick helped them meet, and have affairs behind Tom’s back. He was covering the mistake of others which can end up in huge problems if revealed. Sadly, Nick decides to stay silent from both side, and ended up getting along with everything. Because of this, another mess occurred; Myrtle dies in a car accident. Slowly, Nick becomes devastated with all this, and starts to change a bit.
Americans are perpetual dreamers, unwavering optimists, and incessant innovators. We believe in ourselves, we believe in a better world and we believe that we can do anything we put our minds to. Pursuing the American Dream at all costs, economic class, race, and religion are not barriers; we achieve our goals no matter how unattainable they may seem. We are a nation of underdogs who put our heads down and work towards our goals. Dating back to the Revolutionary War, this mentality won us our freedom; we were David and England was Goliath, but we wanted freedom more than they resisted it. Our nation had a dream and it was determined to make it a reality. 250 years later, Americans are just as ambitious as our Founding Fathers. Young people in this country
Nick and Jordan are intrigued to discover who Gatsby was. Unexpectedly, Nick discovers a man who remembered him from WWI was Gatsby. Nick illustrates the idiosyncratic Gatsby’s exquisite appearance, his solitude since he is a non-alcoholic, and his reputation. Nick crafts Gatsby’s description, “His tanned skin was drawn attractively tight on his face and his short hair looked as though it were trimmed every day...the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests...no one swooned backward on Gatsby, and no French bob touched Gatsby’s shoulder, and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby’s head for one link” (Fitzgerald 50). Nick’s fascination for Gatsby is clearly evident during the chapter. Since Nick’s fascination for Gatsby is insatiable and he is neighbors with Gatsby, a bond may be established between each other. Also, Gatsby’s solitude is caused by the misinterpretation of his guests of his true persona and there oblivious of his existence. This solitude is displayed in the gratitude he received from the opportunistic, unloyal women. From the information asserted, Tom and Gatsby’s personalities are clearly
The Great Gatsby is a novel that written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Nick Carraway who is the neighbor of Gatsby tells the stories among Gatsby, Tom, Daisy and Jordan Baker. Nick used to live in the Midwest, but he moved to West Egg, Long Island later. There he becomes the neighbor of Gatsby who is an affluent billionaire of West Egg, and Gatsby has connections with Daisy who is Nick’s cousin. When Nick first meets Daisy at her husband Tom’s house in East egg, Nick gets to know Jordan Baker who cheated on a golf tournament to win the game. However, as the story moves on, Nick was told by Jordan that Gatsby was in love with Daisy before, but they broke up since Gatsby was poor back then and Daisy did not want to marry poor boy, but until Gatsby becomes a billionaire they have never met again. Therefore Nick helps to arrange a meeting between Gatsby and Daisy. Since then Gatsby and Daisy get close again which causes Tom’s attention. Tom is a snob who possesses inherited wealth and has an affair. Tom and Gatsby starts fighting over Daisy. Even if Gatsby thinks Daisy has never been in love with Tom, Daisy claims that she loves both of them which surprises Gatsby. However, Daisy decides to leave Gatsby since she does not want to lose what she has right now——money, social position… On the way back to Tom’s house, Daisy was driving Gatsby’s car with Gatsby, and accidently Daisy killed a woman who turns out as the affair of Tom-----Myrtle. When Tom gets to know that his affair was killed, he first thought that was Gatsby who had killed her, and he misled Myrtle’s husband that Gatsby was the killer. Unfortunately, Gatsby was killed by Myrtle’s husband for being a wrong killer. In this book, a lot of judgments occur. Not only Nick judg...
The main characters, Daisy, Nick, Gatsby, and Tom are all from the Mid-west. While Tom and Daisy Buchanan live an East Egg, being attracted by its glamour, excitement and promise of success, Nick enjoys living on West Egg. He mentions the friendship between Mid-Westerners, who are brought together by their extremely long and cold winters (in contrast to the New York summers' heat).
Tom and Daisy are very wealthy and live a nonchalant lifestyle. They are not in love with each other and are unhappy; however, they do not leave each other because they need to “play their part in society”. Daisy and Tom often behave in inhumane ways; Apathetic after taking Myrtle’s life, Daisy lets Gatsby take the blame, and Tom and Daisy indirectly cause Gatsby’s death. Appalled after witnessing this horrific series of events, Nick returns to the Midwest. Nick states, "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy
He shows a different side of him , from his party, to Myrtle's party. Daisy refers to him as many things , especially a brute man she calls him. Tom clearly dislikes when she says that about him, and wants her to think more positive about him. When Tom is with Myrtle, during the party, he does not like how she refers to Daisy. He lashes out at Myrtle , and hits her. “ Tom is blind to his hypocrisy; with a “short deft movement” he breaks her nose for daring to mention the name of the wife she is helping him to deceive” (“Charles Thomas Samuels 82”).Violence would not be tolerated in East Egg , but in New York, with Myrtle who comes from the Valley of Ashes , he is able to lash out physically. “ Fitzgerald clearly delinates class difference through his employment of setting” (“Critical Evaluation”). “The valley of ashes is “nowhere,” a place to be driven through on the way to “somewhere” by characters from both East and West Egg”(Critical Evaluation”). “East and West Egg are crushed flat at the contact end”; they represent the collision of dream and dreamer which is dramatized” (“Charles Thomas Samuels 82”). Nick finds out that Tom is not what he used to think of him, he finds out that he is very violent , and sees how completely corrupt he is , and that he does something a gentleman should not be doing. Myrtle has this kind of
Nick’s ever-present jealousy is introduced during the first chapter of the novel. Nick describes the location of his home in order to allow himself a way to denounce his neighbor’s, because he is jealous of their luxurious homes. Nick begins the novel by saying that he “lived at West Egg, the—well, the least fashionable of the two” (5). Nick prefers the “East Egg” status, showing that the location of his house is obviously very important to him. Nick has a hard time affording the cost of West Egg land, even though he denounces it as less “fashionable”. Nick chooses t...
Although they are not a happily married couple, they’re perfect for one another. Both of them are attentive to their fortunes and everything that comes with it. In chapter one, Nick states, “They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together” (Fitzgerald). The amount of wealth they hold drives them to a corner of loneliness and boredom. Despite the fact that the couple follows those with the same fortunes, it’s apparent that they’re a group of secluded individuals. Essentially, the Buchanan’s have no real purpose in life, so they carry on their lives carelessly. They are faulty people who commit adultery, show no respect for those below their status, and place the blame on others for their mistakes. Tom knows that his lack of faithfulness towards Daisy is wrong, yet continues with it. He claims to love Daisy, although his actions counteract it. Meanwhile, Daisy is conscious of those infidelities and his actions and carries the weight of it on her shoulders rather than addressing it. According to Sherry Morton-Mollo, “New York is where Tom Buchanan takes his mistress, where Nick witnesses Tom brutalizing her, where Gatsby reveals his illicit love affair with Daisy, and where a lot of the alcohol is consumed”. Though they carry on their lives separately and differently, it somehow comes together in the Big Apple. Shortly after uncovering everything, the tension amplifies, and unexpected tragic situations occur. After Daisy and Gatsby reveal their love affair, Tom suggests they drive back home together in Gatsby’s car to humiliate them more than they already are, knowing that Daisy will never leave him for Gatsby and his illegally-earned wealth. As they head back to East Egg, where Daisy and Tom resides, they pass through the Valley of Ashes, “the locus of those, such as George and
In the book, The Great Gatsby, written by Scott Fitzgerald, readers follow an intriguing character named Nick Carraway as he is introduced to the world of Jay Gatsby. Arriving in New York to study the bond business, Nick, the protagonist and narrator of the story, is moving into his new house on the island of West Egg, an area populated mainly by the newly rich. Across the bay from West Egg, is where Nick’s cousin, Daisy, resides with her husband Tom Buchanan in East Egg, a district occupied by people of a well-established, rich upper class.
At Tom and Daisy’s dinner party, they introduce Nick to the attractive young lady Jordan Baker. It’s not long before they begin a romantic relationship. Nick also finds out that Tom has a mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Everyone knows about their affair, including Daisy.
Nick finds out a few days after his move that an adored man by the name of Jay Gatsby lives next door to him. He hears about the parties that he throws and such from a friend of his cousin Daisy. He meets Daisy Buchanon, her husband Tom Buchanon, and friend Jordan Baker, at their house in East Egg. This is when everything begins to unravel. Nick is then invited to Gatsby 's party and attends it. After the party it is very apparent that Nick is intrigued in Gatsby. He even watches the party unwind, "There was music from my neighbor 's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and he champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his motor-boats slid the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before." (3.1) Nick eventually meets up
Exposition: Nick Carraway goes to dinner at Daisy and Tom Buchanan’s house, allowing readers to meet these important characters. Tom invites Nick to come along with him to Manhattan, while he spends time with Myrtle, his mistress. Nick attends Gatsby’s party, which allows Nick and Gatsby to become acquainted. Jordan Baker tells Nick that Gatsby and Daisy were once lovers,
In the next chapter, the reader is introduced the bleak stretch of land between New York City and West Egg. It was there that Nick first met Tom’s mistress. Nick and Tom were taking the train into New York City one Saturday when Tom signaled to Nick that they were going to get off the train halfway to their destination in what seemed to be the middle of nowhere. Tom walked into an auto garage where he talked with a man named George Wilson, who asked about a car Tom was supposed to sell him. Wilson’s wife, Myrtle, emerged from the upstairs of the garage. When Wilson went off to his office for a moment, Tom quickly told Myrtle that he wanted to see her and to take the next train into New York. They arranged where they would meet quickly and moved away f...