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The Story Of The Novel ' The Great Gatsby ' By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The novel begins with an ordinary picnic in New York City with the Cardinal family. After enjoying their time, they decide to leave. This part of the story is the exposition. Later on, Jack and Amanda, parents of Lou and Oz, are fighting about their family’s future in the car. Jack is determined to move to California because he found out that he can become wealthy for his award-winning writing there, yet Amanda knows that this move will strengthen the divide between him and his children. During their argument, Jack swerves out of the way to avoid a collision, yet this causes the car to fly off the road and crash. The crash causes Jack to die and Amanda to be in profound coma with little possibility of recovery which makes this the initiating event. Because of having no guardian left, they decide to go to Virginia to live with their great-grandmother. After a long train ride, they finally arrive in Virginia. Eugene, who is very brief, picks up the Cardinal family and the nurse caring for Amanda. On their way through small towns, they pick up Diamond. Then they arrive at the modest, quaint house of Louisa Mae Cardinal. The nurse leaves and kids meet their new guardian for the first time. Without giving much time to rest up, Louisa gives chores to Lou and Oz, so that the farm can be properly maintained and cared for. A lawyer from up north arrives named Cotton, and starts reading to Amanda. Later on at Oz and Lou’s first day of school, Lou picks a fight with Billy Davis since

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