The Great Gatsby Chapter Summaries

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.

Skipping ahead of where we left off last chapter, chapter 6 starts by giving us more background on Gatsby through Nick. We find out that Jay Gatsby is actually a made up persona from James Gatz, and his actual background seems to be in sharp contrast with that of Jay Gatsby’s. He spent his childhood in Minnesota where he met who seems to have played a major impact on Gatsby’s character, and older man named Cody, who took Gatsby under his wing and essentially brought Jay Gatsby to life. Another downside to Gatsby's American dream is that it has, in essence, stunted his growth, intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally.

When Tom uncovers Gatsby’s secret,which is hidden by him for so many years,everything is ruined by time. His status,money,business and all the things which he works hard for to become an uptown man are all be founded. So he is angry to death and even want to kill him. In that moment,he thoroughly exposes his essence. When Daisy eventually know the real Gatsby,the poor man,she is back to the rich Tom again and asks him to take her home. With a wealthy and having high status gentleman is more safe and happy life,which always can be this rich girl’s choice.

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

At the onset of this book, the reader is introduced to the narrator, Nick Carraway, who relates the past happenings that construct the story of Jay Gatsby and Nick during the summer of 1922. After fighting in World War I, or the Great War as Nick called it, Nick left his prominent family in the West of America for the North where he intended to learn the bond business. Nick was originally supposed to share a house in West Egg near New York City with an associate of his, but the man backed out and so Nick lived with only a Finnish cook. Right next door, Gatsby lived in a glorious mansion with expansive gardens and a marble swimming pool, among other luxuries. Yet Nick did not even hear about Gatsby until he went to visit his

    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.

Chapter 4 starts off with Nick providing a list of all the guests who attended Gatsby’s parties in the summer and the irony is that none of them actually knew him. When Nick accompanies Gatsby on a trip into the city for lunch, he reveals the truth about his past. Gatsby states that he is from a wealthy family from the Midwest town of San Francisco, he graduated from Oxford, and declared himself a hero in the war. During lunch, Gatsby introduces Nick to his former business partner, Meyer Wolfsheim who apparently fixed the 1919 World Series. Based on the conversation, Nick begins to think that Gatsby is involved in an organized crime. When they leave the restaurant, they come across Tom Buchanan and as Nick introduces Gatsby to him, Gatsby becomes

Gatsby cannot be classified as a truly moral person who exhibits goodness or correctness in his character and behaviour. Gatsby disputes most moral damage throughout the novel. Gatsby exhibits characteristics explaining the reason behind moral decay in society. Corruption and lies are responsible for the destruction of humanity. Gatsby’s whole life’s basically is a lie as he created a fake identity for himself. A whole new persona, Jay Gatsby is not even his real name. Gatsby

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 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

PLOT SUMMARY: Chapter seven deals with the consequences of Daisy and Gatsby’s affair. First off, Gatsby no longer throws the parties that he used to because he no longer needs them to impress Daisy. He only threw those lavish parties to get Daisy’s attention. Later at Tom and Daisy’s house, Gatsby sees Daisy’s child that she had with Tom, showing Gatsby that Daisy really did love Tom and the past cannot be erased. Then, they all go to New York, with Tom, Jordan, and Nick riding in Gatsby’s car and Gatsby and Daisy riding in Tom’s car.

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

But Daisy was still married with Tom and this led to complications. Gatsby gave up everything to be with Daisy, like it was in the past this led to him pushing Daisy, Tom, and Wilson, the mechanic, to their limits. This is shown in the book when, “She had told him she loved him, and Tom Buchanan had saw. He was astounded,” (Fitzgerald 119). This quote shows how Gatsby pushed Daisy to say she loves him in front of Tom, which caused Tom to become angered. After this event they go to town where anger swells and when they are driving back, very fast they hit Wilson’s wife, Myrtle. In his sad, angry state, Wilson realizes Myrtle has had an affair, and believes it was Gatsby, because it was his car. You can see it in the text when it says, “‘He murdered her,” (Fitzgerald 158). “Wilson was gone...by half past two he was in West Egg, where he asked someone the way to Gatsby’s house. So by that time he knew Gatsby’s name,” (Fitzgerald 160). This quote shows how the grieving Wilson is seeking out Gatsby to kill him for “murdering,” his wife. So the past that led Gatsby to need Daisy, led to them angering Tom and making them leave New York quickly, leading to running over Myrtle and making Wilson, seek out Gatsby for vengeance, which lead to both of their deaths.

One morning 15 year old Bobby Phillips wakes up only to look in the mirror and find himself invisible. Bobby tells his parents first thing, who are very concerned however they end up going to work anyway. Bobby decides it’s a good idea to get out of the house for a little bit, so he bundles up, and walks to the library. While he is at the library he meets a blind girl named Alicia, but what she doesn’t know is that Bobby is invisible. Bobby quickly hurries home worried that his parents will get mad if they are back from work and he isn’t there. While Bobby is waiting he turns on the news only to find that his parents have gotten in a very bad car accident and wont be coming home for the night. He makes a long trip to the hospital to see his

In the beginning of the chapter we meet the narrator Nick Carraway. He talks about the important life lessons that his father had taught him when he was younger which was that he should never criticize anyone because they may not have had the advantages he has had. He gives a short explanation of Gatsby and how he had criticized him for who he was but that he was really actually a good person. He then goes on to explain his family history and his own personal history. He had moved to New York in 1922. He explains East and West Egg and how they are separated by a bay and both identical. Carraway explains that he lived in West Egg which was the “less fashionable” of the two. He explains that he lived close to Gatsby’s colossal mansion. He explains