How To Write A Chapter Summary Of The Great Gatsby Chapter Summaries

In Chapter 1, the narrator introduces himself as Nick Carraway and talks about himself and his father. He describes himself as tolerant but fails to realizes his views are very biased and speaks with pity to those who “haven't had the advantages that you've had,” as his father says. Nick comes from a well-known Mid-Western family, and graduated from Yale (as his ancestors have) in 1915. After fighting in World War I, he comes home restless and decides to learn the bond business. His father finances Nick for a year and Nick lives in a house on West Egg. He talks about West and East Egg. West Egg is the less fashionable of the two, and consists of new money. He lives between Gatsby's mansion and another millionaire. East Egg consists

After returning from the war, a young man named Nick Carraway moved to New York in 1922 in hopes to learn about the bond business. In the district of West Egg, Long Island, a small yet wealthy area populated by the newly rich, Nick rents a house with his dog. One evening Nick visits East Egg for dinner with his second cousin once removed, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, a former classmate. That night Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, an attractive, contemptuous young woman. Jordan tells Nick of Daisy and Tom’s marital issues including Tom’s affair with Myrtle Wilson. She also mentions Nick’s next-door neighbor Jay Gatsby, the wealthy novice. Mr. Gatsby throws large parties weekly in which his guests are pleased to drink his bootleg liquor all the while neglecting him for being a rich amateur with a suspicious past. butt butt butt butt butt butt butt butt butt butt butt butt butt butt butt

    Summary: The narrator of The Great Gatsby, Nick starts the novel by describing himself and introducing Gatsby, everything he scorns, but strives to be. Nick moves to the West Egg in New York to work in the bond business. Nick goes to Tom and Daisy’s house for dinner one night. Tom is a friends from college and Daisy is Nick’s cousin. Nick finds out about Tom’s lover, and sees Gatsby reaching off in the distance when he arrives home.

Nick’s summer in the East egg is and educational experience. He learns about Tom’s affair with Myrtle and how abusive tome is- breaking Myrtle’s nose because she wants him to leave his wife. Nick about Tom and Myrtle “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (P 188). Now it’s true the education he came East Egg for was to learn about the bond business. The timing was great. It was 1992 and the economy was great. The 1920’s a happy extravagant time. Unfortunately Nick learned more about the business of the newly rich in East Egg. He discovers that Gatsby’s car was involved in an accident in which Myrtle Wilson was killed.

1 in the beginning of the book the narrator, nick caraway, describes himself. He then goes on to tell how one summer he move out to New York, west egg. West egg was a place for people that were rich but didn’t know any important people. Those kinds of people lived in east egg. Nick then goes to visit his cousin, Daisy, who is leaving in east egg. When he gets there he is greeted by her husband, tom. He is a sporting man and also a racist. When they are eating dinner he gets a phone call that daisy’s friend Jordan says is from his lover. Nick then goes home and sees Mr. Gatsby standing on his dock.

The story is told by narrator, Nick Carraway who has moved to West Egg, a district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by people who have become rich quickly and show off their wealth but have no social connections.

New York city, but in particular East and West egg. The setting of New York heavily influences the characters. New York is a place of new opportunity and a major center of wealth. Nick is lured into the area by the promise of new chances, change, and a shot at making it big. “Instead of being the warm center of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe- so i decided to go East and learn the bond business.” (page 3). Then there are the East and West egg residents. These are the rich of the rich in the New York area. They are the ones who carry themselves as if they have no care in the world, which they don’t. They own the biggest houses, the shiniest cars, and have the hottest wives. It was also a place of crime. During the 1920’s alcohol was illegal, thus the parties thrown at Gatsby's were illegal as alcohol was present. Also there is the fact that West egg housed the mighty bootlegger Jay Gatsby. This area attracted both the rich and the opportunity seekers bringing them together in a strange mix of wanting and

West Eggers are the newly rich; the people who have worked hard and earned their money in a short period of time. Their wealth is epitomized on material possessions. Gatsby, like the West Eggers, lacks the traditions of the East Eggers. He is considered 'new money', in the sense that his wealth came to him more recently through his own success. Although Gatsby is now a part of this class, his faith and belief in the success of his dreams has allowed him to preserve some morality. Nick Carraway, the narrator of the novel, lives in West Egg and exhibits honesty in this place of superficiality. Clearly the West is able to preserve some ethics while the East is not able to grasp any. Although West Egg is the more moral, it is still a place of superficiality and materialism.

Chapter one gives us information about Nick. We are introduced to his cousin, Daisy, and given a brief description about her and her life. We know that Nick is adventurous if he is willing to leave everything he knows to move to New York. We also can tell that though Nick tries to follow his father’s advice and not judge, he still does in a decisive manner about the life of New Yorkers.

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the narrator Nick Carraway's loss of innocence and growing awareness is one of the significant themes. Nick moves to West Egg, Long Island, an affluent suburb of New York City, where millionaires and powerbrokers dominate the landscape, from his simple, idyllic Midwestern home. In his new home, he meets Jay Gatsby, the main character in the novel. Throughout the novel, Nick's involvement in Gatsby's affairs causes him to gradually lose his innocence and he eventually becomes a mature person. By learning about Gatsby's past and getting to know how Gatsby faces the past and the present, Nick finds out about the futility of escaping from the

Thesis: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts the American society in the early twentieth century consumed by lust and avarice. In order to better understand the rational and motives behind the actions of individual characters, the use of literary lenses offer a closer insight behind each character's desires. Through the psychoanalytical perspective and the use of Freudian psychology, the behaviors of these characters can be explained by identifying the id, ego, and superego. Similarly, through the Marxist perspective, economic exploitation by the wealthy can also be incorporated in analyzing the character's actions.

The Great Gatsby is about how corrupted the American Dream was and how it affected many individual’s lives. The characters in the novel have a huge role in portraying the corruption and lifestyles of those living the dream during the 1920’s. Due to the idea of a success promise that the East had to offer, many westerners packed their lives up and headed that way in hope of a better life. Nick Caraway, one of the main characters, is one of the westerners that took the gamble of moving east during this time period. Nick who was originally from Minneapolis- St. Paul, wanted to experience what New York had to offer. “Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the rigid edge of the universe- so I decided to go east and learn the bond business. Everybody I knew was in the bond business so I suppose it could support one more single man” (Fitzgerald 20). In the summer of 1922, he decided to rent a house in what is known as West Egg, Long Island. The only connections Nick had in the East were his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan, whom he had met at college years ago. Daisy and Tom, along with their young daughter lived in the East Egg. The mansion next to Nick’s house belonged to Jay Gatsby. In the beginning of the novel, Nick makes it known to readers that he hasn’t seen Gatsby even though he was throwing large, loud, and outrageous parties almost every night. However, when Nick and Gatsby do meet they become rather close and by the end of

The narrator of the story, Nick, is a smart, hardworking man from St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended Yale and then decided to move to New York for work. Living on the west egg next to Gatsby’s famous mansion, he is still clueless about his neighbor and many of the things that go on around him. When Nick goes to visit his cousin, Daisy, and

In the beginning of this novel, Nick caraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but not fashionable area populated by rich people. Nick is unlike all the other people in West Egg, he was educated at Yale and has social connections in East Egg. Nick’s next door neighbor in West Egg is a strange man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a huge Gothic mansion and throws parties every Saturday night.