F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

After Nick arrives home from a date with Jordan, Nick gets disturbed by Gatsby who tries everything to convince Nick to set up a date with Daisy. Nick finally agrees and invites Daisy for tea. By the time Daisy arrives it starts to rain, Gatsby enters to meet her but it is not successful until a while later they start to warm-up and have a good time. Daisy is the object of desire and passion for Gatsby, she has dominated his life for the past couple years. His original love for her has developed into a love for the idea of her that has let his imagination fill in the blanks which is just setting him up for disappointment. She didn't become emotional with Gatsby until she saw all of his processions, this disappointment will remind Gatsby

This chapter opens with a reporter at Gatsby’s door asking him if he had anything to say and wants to interview at random. It is explained that rumors are constantly going around New York about Gatsby. Nick knows mostly all about Gatsby’s personal life so he does not believe many or all of the rumors he has heard. Nick then begins to explain Gatsby’s personal life. It is explained that his legal name is James Gatz. He changed his name when he was 17 when he saw Dan Cody drop the anchor of his yacht into Lake Superior. It is also explained that Gatsby’s parents were “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people”. He actually had attended a small Lutheran college called St. Olaf’s in Minnesota. He only ended up staying there for two weeks then left.

Every weekend, Nick’s next door neighbor Gatsby had extravagant parties at his house. One Saturday morning, Gatsby’s butler came to Nick’s house and invited him to the party that was to be held that evening. Nick showed up that night, not knowing a soul there, and not even knowing what the host himself looked like. He soon found Jordan, and spent the rest of the evening with her. Nick found himself speaking with a man he recognized from the war. Nick told him that he did not even know who the host was, but that he had just been invited by him. The man looked puzzled and then told Nick that he was Gatsby. Both were embarrassed and apologized to each other. At that moment, a butler appeared and told Gatsby of a phone call that he had to attend to. Gatsby excused himself and said that he would talk to Nick later that

While at the hotel, Gatsby reveals his secret relationship with Daisy to Tom, and attempts to convince Daisy to ask for a divorce with Tom. While Tom and Gatsby argue, Gatsby completely loses his temper at one moment and unleashes a whole different Gatsby that frightens everyone, especially Daisy. After that moment, Gatsby apologizes for his behavior but Daisy leaves the room crying, Gatsby runs to catch up to Daisy as everyone in the room stays silent.

Since American literature’s emergence, the American dream has become a conceptual ideal for many people throughout history. Although the dream has its own distinct aspects throughout different time periods, it predominantly focuses on the foundations of wealth, success and a desire for something greater. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fiction novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, the protagonist, is primarily known for the numerous lavish parties he throws each weekend at his ostentatious mansion in West Egg in an attempt to reunite with Daisy Buchanan, a woman he falls in love with prior to entering the war before the Roaring Twenties. However, he is seized with an impotent realization on the fact that his wealth cannot afford him the same privileges as others that are born into the upper echelon. Gatsby is completely blinded from his opulent possessions until he becomes oblivious of the fact that money cannot buy love or happiness. Throughout the story, the predilection for materialistic features causes many characters to lose sight of their aspirations, demonstrating how a dream can become easily corrupt by one’s focus on acquiring wealth and power.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the tragic story of two star-crossed lovers. Fitzgerald uses the Roaring Twenties as the setting of this novel. The twenties were a time of promiscuity, new money, and a significant amount of illegal alcohol. Fitzgerald was a master of his craft and there was often more to the story than just the basic plot. He could intertwine political messages and a gripping story flawlessly. In the case of The Great Gatsby, he not only chronicles a love story, but also uses the opportunity to express his opinion on topics such as moral decay, crass materialism, individual ethics, and the American dream.

As the summer goes on, Nick gets invited to one of Gatsby’s big parties. He meets Jordan at the party and they meet Gatsby himself, a young man, a great smile, and tells everyone “old sport”. Later on in the party Gatsby asks to talk to Jordan Baker alone. Nick learns that the parties were all to get and impress Daisy. Gatsby asks Nick to invite Daisy over to his to tea, so Gatsby can meet her. When Daisy and Gatsby meet each other for the first time in five years it starts off awkward, then they start talking to each other. Gatsby tells her about how rich he is now and invites her over to his house. Daisy and Gatsby then begin the affair between each other as their relationship grows. Later, Gatsby get invited to Daisy’s house where Tom starts

For several weeks Nick had lost contact with Gatsby, until he went over to his house one Sunday afternoon. Only being there a short amount of time a small party of three arrives on horses, one of which is Tom Buchanan. Gatsby states that he is delighted that they dropped in, giving the impression that he was expecting them. While offering drinks and cigarettes, Gatsby informs Tom that they had previously met and that he knows his wife. Suddenly, Mr. Sloane, a member of the group of three, insists that he and the lady that was also in the group must be going, until Gatsby insists that they stay for dinner. Then she invites both him and Nick to dinner with her, until Nick bails and Gatsby explains in the quote that he does not have a horse so, he must follow them by car because their method of transport to his house was by horse. On the porch Tom and Nick engage in conversation where Tom states that the

Although he has flaws, Fitzgerald reveals Gatsby’s great capacity for hope, and his kindness toward Nick, while holding onto the hope that he will win back the love of his life, Daisy, despite coming to the incredulous conclusion that they are from two separate worlds: old and new money. In this unpleasant happening he feels “far away from her” and comes to understand not all hopes can come true (109). Nevertheless, he still desperately clings to the fantasy of winning back Daisy. His fantasy is especially exemplified when he says “can’t repeat the past?... Why of course you can!”(110) This belief comes from the idea that his ‘new money’ world will win Daisy from Tom’s ‘old money’ paradigm. Although in the end he is killed because of his love for Daisy, keeping her safe after she murdered Myrtle, yet through all this Gatsby remains kind toward his friend Nick. Starting with the invitation to his “little party,” Gatsby tries to earn Nick’s

Tom, Mr. Gatsby and even Daisy seem to be simultaneously blinded and driven by their greed, though much of it is in an unusual form. Tom’s lust for another woman causes him to cheat Daisy, the love of his life, and not only jeopardize his marriage, but also takes the chance of his child growing up with divorced parents. Mr. Gatsby and his desperate obsession with Daisy worms his way between the already unstable couple (though not because of Tom’s affair), damaging their marriage and almost convincing Daisy to renounce her love for Tom even saying on page 132 that she doesn’t love him, and divorce him, despite Tom’s misdeeds and his affair, which is currently unknown to them, he still loves Daisy and she still loves him causing an exceptional clash of interests. Finally Daisy’s love for both Tom and Gatsby causes plenty of indecision and her eventual compliance with Gatsby nearly results in a divorce with Tom which would have been disastrous for their

Nick invites Daisy over to his house for tea, without telling her that Gatsby is going to be there. When she gets there, she is pretty shocked to see him, and they both go through an emotional stage. Tom is not very happy when he learns about Gatsby. He thinks that Daisy is cheating on him, which she technically is. On a hot summer day, they all decide to go to town and rent a room at the Plaza Hotel. When they get there, Tom and Gatsby have this big argument about who Daisy loves. She loved Tom when they first married, but then her feelings went back to Gatsby. They all then decide to leave. Daisy is driving back when she accidentally hits Myrtle, Tom’s lover, and she kept on driving. Myrtle ended up dying instantly. The husband vows to kill whoever killed his wife. Nick knows something is going to happen so that night he goes over to Gatsby’s and tells him that he needs to leave and he doesn’t. Tom tells the husband of the woman killed that it was Mr. Gatsby’s car that hit his wife. From grieving he went mentally insane and he found out Gatsby’s house, and he went there and killed Gatsby. Nick held a small funeral for

Nicks first sees Gatsby reaching towards the mysterious green light, which he later realizes is the light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He calls himself an Oxford man, and speaks with a visible fake English accent. Gatsby befriends his neighbor Nick with the sole purpose of using him in order to get closer to daisy. With Nick and Jordan’s help, the two are reunited on a rainy afternoon in Nick’s house. Blindly in love, Gatsby acts like a foolish little boy, knocking down Nick’s clock. The long awaited reunion is later moved to Gatsby’s mansion. There he displays his wealth to Daisy. When he exhibits his imported shirts “suddenly with a strained sound Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily” (98). Daisy’s tears are not because the shirts were beautiful; her tears signify her obsession for wealth and money, which is all she cares about.

Chapter 6: As the chapter starts out Gatsby learns that with fame and fortune comes the people who will try to knock you out. We also learn that Gatsby was not born Jay Gatsby but James Gatz from North Dakota, or as the press says. This source says the Gatsby isn 't who he says he is and that it was Dan Cody brought Gatsby under his wing and taught him all he knows about flying through life from the seat of his pants. Nick has spent much time with Jordan and hasn 't seen Gatsby in a new weeks and decides to visit. Tom along with two others ride up on horseback and come for a drink with Gatsby. They ask him to dine with them yet, Gatsby denies. Tom starts to worry about Daisy and attends one of Gatsby 's parties and for the first time in forever Gatsby dances with Daisy gets involved in his own parties. Gatsby and Daisy spend some time alone and when dinner arrives Tom announces that he wishes to eat with another group. Daisy however, is no fool and understand that Tom only wishes to go out with another lady. The party dies down as it always does and Gatsby fears that Daisy failed to have a good time and begins to think about her. Nick, fearing that Gatsby will act without thinking advises him that “you can 't repeat the past” in which Gatsby argues that you can.

One day Nick Carraway, Daisy’s cousin, moved into the house next to Gastby. This gave Gatsby the opportunity he so desperately desired, which was to arrange a meeting with Daisy. When Daisy and Gatsby were finally reunited it was disastrous at first, but when Nick left them alone their love appeared to reignite itself. On one of the hottest days in the summer Gatsby was invited to the Buchanan house for lunch where Gatsby is appalled to learn that Daisy and Tom have already had a daughter. As the day goes on Tom becomes aware of the feeling between Gatsby and Daisy and tries to cause a confrontation between them by mocking Gatsby. Gatsby however does not take the bait and leaves with daisy later that night. On the way home as Daisy was driving she runs over a women and kills her. Gatsby, being the love sick puppy he is, prepares himself to take full blame for what happened to keep Daisy safe. The women who was run over was one of Tom’s mistresses and the wife of George Wilson. After Gatsby and Daisy arrive back at the Buchanan house, Gatsby waits outside the house in the bushes to make sure Tom does not try to hurt Daisy. The next morning Gatsby decided to take a dip in his pool and as he is lying on an air mattress George Wilson appears and kills Gatsby and then takes his own

Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle. At a vulgar, gaudy party in the apartment that Tom keeps for the affair, Myrtle begins to taunt Tom about Daisy, and Tom responds by breaking her nose. As the summer progresses, Nick eventually garners an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. He encounters Jordan Baker at the party, and they meet Gatsby himself, a surprisingly young man who affects an English accent, has a remarkable smile, and calls everyone “old sport.” Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, and, through Jordan, Nick later learns more about his mysterious neighbor. Gatsby tells Jordan that he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock, across the bay from his mansion. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy. Gatsby now wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy will refuse to see him if she knows that he still loves her. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy reestablish their connection. Their love rekindled, they begin an affair. After a short time,