Short Summary Of The Great Gatsby

The passage of this commentary comes from Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby. In this passage, Nick goes to East Egg to see the former members of the Yale Club, and are introduced to Tom and Daisy Buchanan as well as Jordan Baker. East Egg is a place in Long Island where people with ‘old’ money reside, while West Egg contains individuals with ‘new’ money. In this passage, Fitzgerald highlights the superficial benefits of living in East Egg. Fitzgerald wants us to understand the impact the alluring nature of East Egg is on those who do not live there.

1 I believe the most crucial plot point in chapter one is Nick's introduction to the reader and the events of the dinner he attends with his college peers. This introduces Nick as a war veteran with old money who moves to Long Island in the search for a career, and also exposes us to Gatsby for the first time. It also gives the readers hints at future turmoil in the story via Tom's mistress interrupting their meal with phone calls.

It was October 14, 1922, one week before Gatsby got into his car accident, he’s on his way to Daisy’s to confess how much he truly loves her. He arrives to her place and knocks on her door and no answer. And he knows that she is there because she told her to come over at 6:30pm, so he walks in because he is nervous and what he walks into was horrendous.. He walked in and smelled something fishy, almost like there was a rotting animal carcass inside the house. He went upstairs into Daisy’s room and he walks into something he wishes he never seen, Daisy is on the floor, body to the wall, with blood covering the wall where her head is resting. Gatsby runs over to her; “Daisy? Daisy! Daisy!” he says as he shakes her like she's a ragdoll. He finds it, the murder weapon, there is a pistol lying next to Daisy with blood all over the barrel, almost as if someone put the pistol point blank with her head and pulled the trigger.

The most cruicial part of the plot in chapter 1 is the building of characters. It also is about building setting, for the time, and those involved in it. It shows how the class of people Nick will be around, and even more so those like Gatsby.

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

Early in the story the narrator describes the panic of a young boy roughly about the age of sixteen with brown eyes and hair to match. His emotions all over the place because he was in a dark box with no light on his way to somewhere he didn't know; the result was sorrow then anger and lastly just mortified. Thomas, the protagonist, had no idea what was going on. But when he reached his destination the top of the box opened and he was being looked down upon by an estimated 60 boys, all around his age. Some older than others. From that point his emotions were mostly confusion, anger, sadness and curious. Being surrounded by new people in a new place would make anyone feel that way. Curiosity was Thomas's dominate trait. Throughout the book

The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota who has recently moved to New York to sell bonds. He moves into a small house in West Egg, across the water from New Egg, where his rich cousin Daisy lives with her womanizing husband Tom Buchanan, who Nick went to school with at Yale. Daisy introduces Nick to her friend Jordan Baker, a professional golfer, with the intention of fixing them up. Nick returns home after dinner at their home and notices Gatsby, his mysterious next door neighbor, standing on the lawn of his mansion, looking out over the water at a single green light. When Nick yells out to introduce himself to Gatsby- he has disappeared.

Sincerely, F Scott Fitzgerald is an arts documentary hosted by Jay McInerney, a really good re-telling of Fitzgerald's biography. McInerney explores the life and writing of Fitzgerald and did a great job on the overlap between Fitzgerald's life and the stories he wrote, with a special focus on the genesis of The Great Gatsby, which was considered as Fitzgerald’s greatest work, and its author's final years in Hollywood.

The Great Gatsby is by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is one of the greatest authors of all time even after his death. Everyone has opinions about the novel, the settings, and characters that make up the book. Some might say that the Great Gatsby wasn’t at all what they expected, and thought it should’ve ended differently. Others might say the book is perfect, even though there were a couple of characters who people didn’t agree with, but overall it was an amazing book.There are so many thoughts, and opinions about the novel, because it is an eye catching book that everyone should read. In conclusion, The Great Gatsby has many controversies about it, different aspects, and unique characters that makes the book one of the greatest.

The Great Gatsby is an entertaining, twisted version of the classic love story that thoroughly describes New York City during the Roaring 20’s. Nick Carraway, one of the main characters, tells this materialistic themed story through first-person narration. The story begins with Nick Carraway moving from the Midwest to West Egg, Long Island looking to become a bond salesman. Nick moves in next to Jay Gatsby, a mystery party man,“The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard-it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion” (Fitzgerald, 5). Nick’s cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan live across the water in East Egg. When Nick goes over for dinner with the Buchanans and their friend Jordan Baker, Jordan tells Nick about Tom’s affair with Myrtle Wilson. Nick sees first hand the strain this affair is having on Tom and Daisy’s marriage. As soon as Nick gets home, Gatsby invites him to his next party where they meet. They soon become good friends and Nick learns that Gatsby and Daisy were lovers before Gatsby went off to World War II; Gatsby is still in love with Daisy and wants to win her back even though she is married to Tom. He threw all those parties for her and bought that house to be near Daisy and impress her with his new richness, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Fitzgerald, 78). “He expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night” (Fitzgerald, 79). Gatsby and Jordan convince Nick to invite Daisy over so Gatsby could show off his new house and to see if the spark between them is still there. Gatsby and Daisy rekindled their love for each other, sadly Daisy is still married to Tom so they can’t begin a new relationship. Want to find out what happens next? Read The Great Gatsby!

1. I think the most crucial part of chapter one is when Nick meets Gatsby for the first time. Gatsby is reaching towards the dark water but all Nick sees is a green light that marks the end of the dock. Gatsby then disappears.

Writing two years after Gatsby’s death, Nick describes the events that surrounded the funeral. Swarms of reporters, journalists, and gossipmongers descend on the mansion in the aftermath of the murder. Wild, untrue stories, more exaggerated than the rumors about Gatsby when he was throwing his parties, circulate about the nature of Gatsby’s relationship to Myrtle and Wilson. Feeling that Gatsby would not want to go through a funeral alone, Nick tries to hold a large funeral for him, but all of Gatsby’s former friends and acquaintances have either disappeared—Tom and Daisy, for instance, move away with no forwarding address—or refuse to come, like Meyer Wolfshiem and Klipspringer. The latter claims that he has a social engagement in Westport and asks Nick to send along his tennis shoes. Outraged, Nick hangs up on him. The only people to attend the funeral are Nick, Owl Eyes, a few servants, and Gatsby’s father, Henry C. Gatz, who has come all the way from Minnesota. Henry Gatz is proud of his son and saves a picture of his house. He also fills Nick in on Gatsby’s early life, showing him a book in which a young Gatsby had written a schedule for self-improvement.

A comparative study of texts is imperative, as it permits responders to comprehend the discrepancies and similarities between texts as well as the values of composers within their contexts. Elizabeth Barret Browning’s (EBB’S), Sonnets from the Portuguese (SFP) and The Great Gatsby (TGG) composed by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (FSF) explore the way views of love and spirituality have been altered by the composers over the seventy years between the texts. In EBB’S SFP published in 1850, hope, purpose and passion are accentuated. However, by the 1920’s, FSF believes that these concepts have been corrupted and are no longer possible in a materialistic and loveless contemporary America.

After reading the first few chapters, I felt like certain predictions would seem logical. Daisy and Gatsby will meet again and resume their relationship. Gatsby has spent the last five years dreaming of this, and Daisy had missed Gatsby terribly when he left for the war. She had wanted to go to New York to see Gatsby before he went overseas. She got drunk before her wedding to Tom and cried, a letter from Gatsby in her hands. Also, Tom and Daisy's marriage has never been a strong and loving one; Tom's infidelities show this. Tom won't take Daisy and Gatsby's relationship well. Tom is very arrogant and possessive. He is used to having his way. He won't give up Daisy easily. She is one of his possessions. Gatsby's dreams will not turn out well. Whatever happens, based on what is known in the first four chapters, will be serious enough that it makes Nick go back home where he continues to think about Gatsby long after the summer of 1922. Gatsby will somehow be hurt or even destroyed by getting involved with Tom and Daisy. Nick says in Chapter I that something "preyed" on Gatsby and that "foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams."

The definition of great by Webster is, “of ability, quality, or eminence considerably above the normal or average.” Jay Gatsby, formerly known as James Gatz, is coined as great by our narrator Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this classic novel many could perceive the title in a multitude of ways, but the question the reader needs to ask to find out the meaning behind the title is why does Nick see Gatsby as great? Jay Gatsby is great but not in the moral sense, he is a criminal and failure. He is a failure who hides behind a veil lies that only those below him in the social ladder accept as the truth and due to this he is seen as a success. So why is he great when his character is anything but great?