The Great Gatsby And Daisy's Relationship

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In the summer of 1922, after the end of World War 1, a young man from Minnesota, moves to New York to learn something more about the bond business. Nick Carraway established himself in the West Egg, the region of the rich people of Long Island. In a gigantic Gothic mansion next to Nick’s house lives a mysterious new come man named Jay Gatsby, who makes large, extravagant parties every Saturday night. One day Nick goes to East Egg, the other area of Long Island to meet his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom Buchanan, who is Nick’s classmate from the university, and together have dinner. Nick meets the young and beautiful Jordan Baker and a romantic relationship is forms between them. From her he understands about the secret affair of Tom with …show more content…
This mysterious man calls everyone “old sport and has a remarkable smile. Nick learns more about Gatsby from Jordan, because Gatsby wanted to speak with her alone. He tells her that is deeply in love with Daisy from the first moment he saw her in Louisville in 1917. Many nights Gatsby spends time staring at the green light, which comes from the end of Daisy’s dock across the bay. This light symbolizes the distance between them and also reminds Gatsby of Daisy and it makes him feel close to her. Gatsby asks Nick to help him reunion his relationship with Daisy and after the meeting and the awkward situation the two lovers had, their affair was resumed. After time Tom also understands about his wife’s relationship, and despite the fact that he is also involved in an infidelity, Tom is really angry with the thought that Daisy is not faithful to him. Tom and Gatsby face each other in a war of words in an apartment in New York. They try to persuade the other one that Daisy loves him and is under his control. Tom wins, because Daisy chooses the money than the real love. Returning from New York, trying to calm herself as driving, Daisy hits and kills Tom’s lover Myrtle with Gatsby’s

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