The Great Gatsby is a story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story is set in Jazz Age 1925 in New York. The Great Gatsby mainly explores themes of society and class, love, wealth, memory and the past, and American dreams. The story depends on Jay Gatsby’s life and his dream, the dream of getting Daisy back. Jay Gatsby is one of main characters in the Great Gatsby. Gatsby is like the other characters that have their dreams they attempt to achieve. Among those dreams, his dream seems to be bigger, harder, and more impossible to accomplish because his dream is repeating the past and reuniting with Daisy. Getting Daisy back becomes the highest dream. Gatsby buys a huge palace-like house in the opposite riverside of Daisy’s house. During summer time, parties are held at his house every weekend. All people around New York, such as film director, superstars, highschoolers, as well as Nick's boss, come to the party they do not receive any invitation, but
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Gatsby lies everyone about himself because he doesn’t want anybody to know he was poor and born in a farm in North Dakota, which is extremely different from now. People who go to his party, no one really knows him, say that “he killed a man once”(50), and also “he was a German spy during the war”(50). Nonetheless, Nick is the only one who Gatsby trusts and tell everything to. He tells Nick that he is “the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west”(66), “educated at Oxford - It is a family tradition”(66), and he also “lived in all the capitals of Europe - collecting the jewels”(66). Things Gatsby tells seems to be realistic to Nick because of "a piece of metal, slung on a ribbon”(67) that says Major Jay Gatsby, For Valour Extraordinary, and “A souvenir of Oxford Day”(67) that he always carries around. He also explains why he has party because he just hopes to see Daisy to come to this party, yet
Gatsby lies everyone about himself because he doesn’t want anybody to know he was poor and born in a farm in North Dakota, which is extremely different from now. People who go to his party, no one really knows him, say that “he killed a man once”(50), and also “he was a German spy during the war”(50). Nonetheless, Nick is the only one who Gatsby trusts and tell everything to. He tells Nick that he is “the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west”(66), “educated at Oxford - It is a family tradition”(66), and he also “lived in all the capitals of Europe - collecting the jewels”(66). Things Gatsby tells seems to be realistic to Nick because of "a piece of metal, slung on a ribbon”(67) that says Major Jay Gatsby, For Valour Extraordinary, and “A souvenir of Oxford Day”(67) that he always carries around. He also explains why he has party because he just hopes to see Daisy to come to this party, yet