SUMMARY The Grerat Gatsby
SUMMARY The Grerat Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is the story of uncommon millionaire Jay Gatsby as told by Nick
Carraway, a Midwesterner who lives on Long Island. Gatsby’s enormous house is
adjacent to nick’s home, and nick becomes curious about his neighbor after being
invited to one of his famous parties. Nick soon learns that Gatsby is in love with
Daisy Buchanan, Nick’s cousin and the wife of Tom Buchanan. Buchanan takes
nick for a day in the city, where Nick learns that Buchanan has a kept woman,
Myrtle, the wife of a long island mechanic.
Nick learns that Gatsby (James Gatz) at the time, and Daisy had once been in love,
but Daisy married Tom while Gatsby was in Europe during the Great War,due to
which James Gatz abandoned his old identity, becoming Jay Gatsby with the help
of notorious criminal Meyer Wolfsheim. Gatsby chose the site of his house in
Long Island because it was across the bay from Daisy’s house, from which a green
light could be seen at night.
Nick manages to get Gatsby and Daisy together, and while the meeting is awkward
at first, Gatsby soon relaxes and invites Nick and Daisy back to his mansion.
Gatsby and Daisy begin to see each other secretly with some frequency. Nick and
Gatsby also become close, as Nick is one of the only people who continues to
support Gatsby. Tom Buchanan eventually confronts Gatsby in Manhattan about
the affair, and the two argue about whom Daisy genuinely loves. Daisy claims to
love both of them, but she decides to return to Long Island with Gatsby, not her
husband. Daisy drives Gatsby’s car, but she accidentally kills a woman on the side
of the road. It turns out that this woman is Tom Buchanan’s girlfriend Myrtle
Myrtle’s husband blames Tom Buchanan for the death, but Buchanan informs him
that it was Gatsby’s car that killed the woman. The mechanic goes to Gatsby’s
house, where he shoots Gatsby and then himself. Daisy refuses to confess to her
crime, and only a few people, including Gatsby’s father Henry, show up for
Gatsby’s funeral.
MORAL:
Money can’t buy you love (or friends).
He made his fortune in an illegal manner, none of Gatsby’s party attendees show
up to his funeral, aside from Nick. His failure to attain happiness leads the reader
to believe that the moral of the story is that the American Dream is ultimately
unattainable.
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