The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Summary

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

Chapter seven starts with Gatsby changing his whole life around. He no longer hosts parties every week, he doesn't need to anymore because he has Daisy. He also fires his past servants and replaces them with workers of Meyer Wolfsheim, since he does not want any gossip around him. To Nick’s surprise, Gatsby was headed over to Tom’s house to have lunch. It is the hottest day of the year when this lunch is happening. The group hears Tom yelling at Mr.Wilson on the telephone. Gatsby sees Pammy, Daisy’s daughter and is somewhat irritated because he realizes how much more complicated the situation had become and the fact that there is living proof of Tom and Daisy’s love. Tom finds out about the affair when Daisy’s tone shifted when she spoke to

In chapter seven, Nick, Jordan, Gatsby and the Buchanan's, go to New York, where Tom confronts Gatsby on the topic of Daisy. Later as Gatsby and Daisy are driving back from New York, they hit Myrtle Wilson with their car killing her. This is where the American Dream’s demise begins. Gatsby and Daisy have recently been seeing a lot of each other. So much so that Gatsby fired his servants, to prevent gossip spreading; "I wanted someone who wouldn't gossip". However Tom is suspicious of the two of them and believes they are having an affair. When Nick goes to the Buchanan’s he is surprised to see Gatsby and Jordan there. All of them decide to go to New York, and Tom splits them up, taking Gatsby’s car with Nick and Jordan, and Gatsby and Daisy taking Toms car. In New York they stay in a hotel room. Tom becomes increasingly hostile, mocking Gatsby before snapping at him, confronting him and Daisy "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife". Gatsby insists that Daisy loves him, and demands Daisy tell Tom she had never loved him,

    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.

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

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 beginning of chapter four starts off with Nick giving a list and describing the guests that come to Gatsby’s parties. The tone of this passage seems to be casual but amused. Nick starts ranting a list of endless names, each with a description about that person, while seeming very interested in who these people are and why they are at Gatsby’s party. He says it as if he has had a lot of time to analyze and group the different kinds of people at the party. He is able to group them apart from East Egg and West Egg. He tells a lot of background information about each person,like the fact the “young Brewer, who had his nose shot off in the war” or “Edgar Beaver, whose hair turned cotton-white one winter afternoon for no good reason at all” (Fitzgerald

This chapter starts out with the description of another part of New York known as the “Valley of Ashes.” This is the poverty side of New York and is noticeably poor since it's referred to such a name. We are introduced to another character named George Wilson and his wife Myrtle. Tom takes Nick to George Wilson's garage, which is located in the Valley of Ashes. By this we know that George Wilson is a poor man.Tom is cheating on his wife for Wilson's wife which is pretty absurd.Tom takes a visit to a party with Catherine, and brings Daisy Nick and Myrtle along with him. (Catherine and Myrtle are sisters). The group starts gossiping about Gatsby, while getting drunk. Myrtle then begins to annoy Tom because she keeps talking about his wife Daisy. This non-stop talk about

Gatsby asks for Nicks help to arrange a reunion for himself and Daisy, Nick agrees to help.

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.

He goes to the party seeing there are being all around the giant mansion. As Nick asked people, he found out something strange. He noticed that out of all those people he was the only person to get an invite. As time passed, Nick had finally met the Great Gatsby. He looked way younger than thought he would be, seeing a completely different man than imagined. Daisy, Nick's cousin that still hasn't heard from Gatsby heard that he lives just right across the bay. The next weekend came by as Nick not knowing Daisy and Gatsby knew each other and Nick took her to the party. Nick found to like Gatsby as a great friend telling him, "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."Gatsby and Nick became better friends. Again, Gatsby and Daisy then met again and saw love right away. This is when Gatsby completes his American Dream, He is rich, and now has the girl he loves with him. Daisy getting all the attention and anything she wants is able to love and live with him. As time goes by Tom starts to figure things out as he finds out they love each other. Gatsby was wanting her to tell tom the she loves Gatsby but she says she loves them both. They all get into an argument and Daisy runs to Gatsby car, as they're driving angrily Daisy hits and kills Tom's mistress running out into the road wanting a ride but doesn't stop. Then finding out whose vehicle it was they think it is Gatsby. The husband of the dead wife all drunk went to Gatsby's house and shot him dead then shot himself. Right then ended The Gatsby American Dream.

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.

Jay Gatsby, who's real name is James Gatz. He falls in love with Daisy Buchanan, in which she now married to a man by the of Thomas "Tom" Buchanan. Gatsby is a young military officer in Louisville during the time that, him and Daisy met before, he's shipped overseas. The entire time overseas, him and her wrote letter to one another, but Daisy had grown tired of loneness. She met Tom and he swept her right off her feet, and married her. Five years after returning back to the states. Gatsby is still committed to Love, and the moments that was once experienced in Louisville. So, Gatsby starts his illegal business and become wealth enough to move across the Long Island Sound from Daisy Dock. Gatsby hosted large extravagant parties at his home, often enough to get an name for himself in the community. Majority of the individuals that showed up the parties were not invited to attend, but Gatsby never turned anyone away. Nick is Daisy cousin, and the narrator as well. Nick is very eager to know exactly, who is Gatsy.

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,