Summary Of The Great Gatsby

    Nick Carraway had just moved from the Middle East into a part of New York called West Egg where people of new wealth lived and he had his cousin Daisy who lived in the East Egg with her husband Tom Buchanan which is where people of old money lived. Near where Nick lives is also  where Gatsby's mansion is located. In the beginning Nick always notices that Gatsby would

Nick moved from Midwestern America to the East Coast. Cities have historically been viewed as centers of depravity, while rural areas represent simplicity and thus a kind of innocence. Every time the characters travel between the Eggs and the city, they pass beneath a billboard containing the infamous eyes of

Lastly, Nick most important confidant role is toward Jay Gatsby. Nick meets Gatsby after he moves next door to him. They formally meet when Nick is invited to a party of Gatsby. It was not a coincidence that Gatsby lived next door to the love of his life’s cousin, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby and Daisy dated when he was James Gatz. They were in love, but when Gatsby left for the war they drifted apart. Although, Gatsby had an elaborate plan to win back Daisy, and it worked, almost. Gatsby moved directly across the bay from Daisy. He also arranged for them to reunite. It almost worked because by the end of the day that they spent together at

This matter of the "girl back home" warrants further study. This is the girl whom Daisy and Tom ask about, and the subject of whom Nick clearly (and

Nick had never met Gatsby before this encounter. Nick arrives home, he sees Gatsby standing on the lawn reaching out toward the water. Gatsby is just staring at the distant green light that might mark the end of a dock on the other side.

As Nick moves into West Egg, his life begins to change from what it used to be. Following his appearance in New York, his cousin Daisy invites him over her house in the East Egg, where he meets Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker. Nick never judges someone, rather, he gets to know them and their story before making any assumptions, and this is shown many separate times. He knew Tom because they were friends in college, but Jordan was a new face for him and he was interested to find out what she was like. Nick and Jordan form a sort of relationship, propelled by Daisy, as time goes on but it is rather short lived, he felt like she was untrustworthy and the way she acted after Myrtle's, Toms mistresses, death caused Nick to not care about her any more, and lose what love he had for her.

When Nick meets up with his cousin Daisy and his old classmate Tom in East Egg, he is shown an unfamiliar side of people, a darker side, and he is at a loss and out of his element. Nick is tempted and curious about these things and they lead him away from his midwestern upbringing. The love triangles, the infidelity, gold digging and homicide disgust Nick and he becomes resolved to move back to his midwestern comfort zone almost like in doing so, he will be able to wash himself clean of the experience. Although the character Nick acts as a confidant for those around him, it seems that the burden of their indiscretions is too much for him and he returns to the familiarity and the safety of the morals he was raised on.

Nick is an educated man from Yale and has social connections in East Egg which includes his cousins, Daisy Buchanan and a classmate of his, Tom Buchanan who is married to her.

In the summer of 1922 Nick moves to New York City in hopes of pursuing a carrier in Wall Street. He moves in next to the mansion of Gatsby a mysterious billionaire that often threw extravagant parties. One day he decides to visit his cousin’s house, while he is there he has dinner with his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom. He gets introduce to Jordan Baker by Daisy who hopes they take a liking to each other. During the dinner a woman

The way Gatsby looks at the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock symbolizes how the American Dream is unattainable for society. Gatsby lives in a mansion in West Egg right across the bay from Daisy’s house in East Egg. East Egg represent the people of the old money aristocracy. Gatsby is next door neighbors with a character named Nick. Nick is the main character in the story which he also narrates. One late night Nick witnesses Gatsby reaching out to a

1. In Chapter one, the imagery of the green light drives the plot and sets the stage. The green light symbolizes Gatsby's one genuine want. On the off chance that he can simply connect, he will accomplish his fantasy. 2.

Nick is the main character and also sets himself as the author, and narrator of the book. At the begining of the chapter Nick tells us that he learned to not judge others, and to hold them to his own moral standards from his father. He describes himself as highly moral and tolerant as well. 3. Tom Buchanan is the husband of Nick's cousin Daisy.

In chapter four, Nick finds out that Gatsby bought the house so that Daisy would be just across the bay. Nick responds: "Then it had not been merely the stars to which

Nick moved from Chicago to the East in hopes to start over and to achieve the american dream but quickly realized he was too conscious of other people to reach such a goal. Throughout the book one realizes Nick doesn't belong in the fast paced New York City, a common problem amongst people moving to the East. Nick still had his midwest roots in him which made it hard for him to get acquainted with the relaxed morals that began to rise in the east. Nick didn’t have many friends so after the death of Gatsby he decided it was time to pack up and move back home where he would be surrounded by “real” people, “After Gatsby’s death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes’ power of correction. So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home” (Fitzgerald,

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.