Recently I read The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book is published by Charles Scribner’s Sons on April 10, 1925. The Great Gatsby is considered a historical drama and has one hundred eighty two pages. The Great Gatsby is about a story of an eccentric millionaire Jay Gatsby, as told by Nick Carraway, a midwesterner who lives beside Jay Gatsby in Long Island.
The Great Gatsby is set in the summer of 1922 in Long Island and in New York City. The novel is told by Nick Carraway in both first person and in third person. Nick Carraway is a young man from Minnesota, who graduated from Yale and fought in World War l, and goes to New York City to learn about the business of bonds. In this novel Nick is often the person who holds all the …show more content…
Jay Gatsby is a mysterious man that nobody knows the background of. He is a very rich and handsome young man who lives in a huge mansion beside our other protagonist Nick Carraway. Gatsby is known for his lavish parties he throws every single saturday night. As The Great Gatsby goes on, Nick learns more and more about Jay and where he comes from. We learn that Jay Gatsby grew up on a farm in North Dakota. Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway are the two protagonist and also the biggest characters in the story. Some other smaller characters consist of: Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson. Tom Buchanan is Daisy’s husband. He is a very wealthy man who was once apart of Nick Carraway’s social club at Yale. Tom is a very arrogant man and his personality screams sexism and racism. Tom is having an affair with Myrtle while he is married to Daisy. Which in fact is ironic because when he notices that Daisy is having an affair with Jay Gatsby he demands that him and Jay have a confrontation. Daisy Buchanan is Tom’s beautiful wife, as well as Nick Carraway’s cousin. Daisy is a skeptical woman, who behaves superficially to hide her pain. Daisy needs to be loved, and by a wealthy man. That …show more content…
While his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom is living in the much fancier East Egg across the bay. Jay Gatsby starts throwing these massive parties every saturday night, where everyone drinks his booze, which by the way is illegal, and tries to figure out who Gatsby really is. Everyone wants something they can’t have. Gatsby wants Daisy; Tom wants both his woman to not find out about each other; Nick wants Jordan, plus, he wants everyone to stop being
The Great Gatsby is set in the summer of 1922 in Long Island and in New York City. The novel is told by Nick Carraway in both first person and in third person. Nick Carraway is a young man from Minnesota, who graduated from Yale and fought in World War l, and goes to New York City to learn about the business of bonds. In this novel Nick is often the person who holds all the …show more content…
Jay Gatsby is a mysterious man that nobody knows the background of. He is a very rich and handsome young man who lives in a huge mansion beside our other protagonist Nick Carraway. Gatsby is known for his lavish parties he throws every single saturday night. As The Great Gatsby goes on, Nick learns more and more about Jay and where he comes from. We learn that Jay Gatsby grew up on a farm in North Dakota. Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway are the two protagonist and also the biggest characters in the story. Some other smaller characters consist of: Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson. Tom Buchanan is Daisy’s husband. He is a very wealthy man who was once apart of Nick Carraway’s social club at Yale. Tom is a very arrogant man and his personality screams sexism and racism. Tom is having an affair with Myrtle while he is married to Daisy. Which in fact is ironic because when he notices that Daisy is having an affair with Jay Gatsby he demands that him and Jay have a confrontation. Daisy Buchanan is Tom’s beautiful wife, as well as Nick Carraway’s cousin. Daisy is a skeptical woman, who behaves superficially to hide her pain. Daisy needs to be loved, and by a wealthy man. That …show more content…
While his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom is living in the much fancier East Egg across the bay. Jay Gatsby starts throwing these massive parties every saturday night, where everyone drinks his booze, which by the way is illegal, and tries to figure out who Gatsby really is. Everyone wants something they can’t have. Gatsby wants Daisy; Tom wants both his woman to not find out about each other; Nick wants Jordan, plus, he wants everyone to stop being