The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in 1925. When the book was first published it had mediocre sales and mixed reviews. After Fitzgerald's death, the U.S military ordered 150,000 books to promote a young war veteran who achieves the American dream. That is what started over 500,000 sales each year (Chalupa). The Great Gatsby is set in New York and Long Island in two separate areas labeled, West Egg and East Egg. Nick is expressed by F. Scott Fitzgerald as a very loyal and practical character that knows the difference between right and wrong and Nick shows many sound characteristics that other characters lack.
The book starts off with Nick Carraway moving to East Egg across from his cousin Daisy in West Egg. Daisy …show more content…
The rest was a mystery until one day 100 years down the road. A teenage girl, Luxton, was in an attic looking at some of her grandmother’s old keepsakes. While searching through bags and boxes of old pictures and jewelry, Luxton bumped a small box off a shelf. Luxton’s grandma heard the noise and came upstairs. She saw all the letters and pictures scattered across the floor. The letters were signed from Nick Carraway and some from Jordan Baker. Luxton had heard about the story of Jay Gatsby in her life. Therefore, Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker were familiar names to her. Luxton sat back and asked her grandmother multiple …show more content…
Before Jordan died, she would share a love story to Maddison every night before she went to bed. Maddison only put all the pieces together after she found those letters later in her life and the story became clearer. Maddison explained to Luxton that after Gatsby’s death Jordan and Nick separated, but Jordan kept in touch with Nick by writing him. The letters consisted of Nick mourning Gatsby’s loss. Nick was traveling the world and doing it alone. Jordan constantly asked where Nick was but he never revealed that information because he knew Jordan was not the one for him. After a couple years of writing back and forth, Nick stopped writing back to Jordan’s sappy love letters. Jordan would continue to write him even though the chances of getting a letter back was
The book starts off with Nick Carraway moving to East Egg across from his cousin Daisy in West Egg. Daisy …show more content…
The rest was a mystery until one day 100 years down the road. A teenage girl, Luxton, was in an attic looking at some of her grandmother’s old keepsakes. While searching through bags and boxes of old pictures and jewelry, Luxton bumped a small box off a shelf. Luxton’s grandma heard the noise and came upstairs. She saw all the letters and pictures scattered across the floor. The letters were signed from Nick Carraway and some from Jordan Baker. Luxton had heard about the story of Jay Gatsby in her life. Therefore, Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker were familiar names to her. Luxton sat back and asked her grandmother multiple …show more content…
Before Jordan died, she would share a love story to Maddison every night before she went to bed. Maddison only put all the pieces together after she found those letters later in her life and the story became clearer. Maddison explained to Luxton that after Gatsby’s death Jordan and Nick separated, but Jordan kept in touch with Nick by writing him. The letters consisted of Nick mourning Gatsby’s loss. Nick was traveling the world and doing it alone. Jordan constantly asked where Nick was but he never revealed that information because he knew Jordan was not the one for him. After a couple years of writing back and forth, Nick stopped writing back to Jordan’s sappy love letters. Jordan would continue to write him even though the chances of getting a letter back was