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    This document provides a summary of the key plot points and characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. It describes how the story is told from the perspective of Nick Carraway about his neighbor, the wealthy Jay Gatsby, and Gatsby's love for his cousin Daisy Buchanan. The summary outlines Gatsby's past with Daisy and how he established his fortune and identity to be near her again. It also discusses the main events of the plot, including Gatsby and Daisy's rekindled romance, Tom Buchanan's confrontation with Gatsby, and the tragic ending where Gatsby is fatally shot by George Wilson after Gatsby's car kills Wilson

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    This document provides a summary of the key plot points and characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. It describes how the story is told from the perspective of Nick Carraway about his neighbor, the wealthy Jay Gatsby, and Gatsby's love for his cousin Daisy Buchanan. The summary outlines Gatsby's past with Daisy and how he established his fortune and identity to be near her again. It also discusses the main events of the plot, including Gatsby and Daisy's rekindled romance, Tom Buchanan's confrontation with Gatsby, and the tragic ending where Gatsby is fatally shot by George Wilson after Gatsby's car kills Wilson

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    SUMMARY:

    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.
    CHARACTERS:

    Jay Gatsby (James Gatz)


    Gatsby is the novel's main character
    Nick Carraway
    The novel's writer
    Daisy Buchanan
    Daisy is Nick's cousin, Tom's wife, and the woman that Gatsby loves.
    Tom Buchanan
    Daisy’s husband
    Myrtle Wilson
    Myrtle is desperate to improve her life. She shares a loveless marriage
    with George Wilson. She has been having a long-term affair with Tom
    Buchanan
    George B. Wilson
    George’s only passion is his love for his wife, Myrtle.
    Henry Gatz
    Gatsby's father

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