plot summary the great gatsby
Plot summary The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York to learn about the bond business. He rents a house next door to the mysterious Gatsby, at West Egg, which is populated by the newly rich. Gatsby lives in a big mansion and he throws huge parties every saturday night.
Nick is unlike the inhabitants of West Egg because of his connections to the more fashionable East Egg, home to the established upper class. He goes there to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom, whom he went to Yale with. He is introduced to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, but a bit cynical, woman and they begin a romantic relationship.
Nick founds out that Tom has a lover, Myrte Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City.
He receives an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties, and Nick encounters Jordan there. Together they meet Gatsby, a surprisingly young man who has a remarkable smile and calls everyone old sport. Gatsby asks to talk to Jordan alone. He 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 wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy. Nick invites Daisy to tea without telling her Gatsby will be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Daisy and Gatsby reestablish their connection. Their love rekindle, they begin an affair.
After a short time, Tom grows increasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stares at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realizes Gatsby is in love with her. Though Tom is himself involved in an extramarital affair, he is deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful to him. Tom forces the group to drive into New York City where he confronts Gatsby at a suite at the Plaza hotel. He
Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York to learn about the bond business. He rents a house next door to the mysterious Gatsby, at West Egg, which is populated by the newly rich. Gatsby lives in a big mansion and he throws huge parties every saturday night.
Nick is unlike the inhabitants of West Egg because of his connections to the more fashionable East Egg, home to the established upper class. He goes there to visit his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom, whom he went to Yale with. He is introduced to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, but a bit cynical, woman and they begin a romantic relationship.
Nick founds out that Tom has a lover, Myrte Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City.
He receives an invitation to one of Gatsby’s legendary parties, and Nick encounters Jordan there. Together they meet Gatsby, a surprisingly young man who has a remarkable smile and calls everyone old sport. Gatsby asks to talk to Jordan alone. He 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 wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy. Nick invites Daisy to tea without telling her Gatsby will be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Daisy and Gatsby reestablish their connection. Their love rekindle, they begin an affair.
After a short time, Tom grows increasingly suspicious of his wife’s relationship with Gatsby. At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Gatsby stares at Daisy with such undisguised passion that Tom realizes Gatsby is in love with her. Though Tom is himself involved in an extramarital affair, he is deeply outraged by the thought that his wife could be unfaithful to him. Tom forces the group to drive into New York City where he confronts Gatsby at a suite at the Plaza hotel. He