The Great Gasby

The Great Gasby

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THE GREAT GATSBY

THE GREAT GATSBY IS ABOUT A MAN NAMED NICK CARRAWAY A YOUNG MAN from Minnesota THAT moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, a wealthy but unfashionable area populated by the new rich, a group who have made their fortunes too recently to have established social connections and who are prone to garish displays of wealth. A Man named Jay Gatsby who lives in a mansion and throws extravagant parties every Saturday night.
Nick is unlike the other of West Egg he WENT TO Yale and has social connections in East Egg, a fashionable area of Long Island home to the established upper class. YOU HAVE Daisy Buchanan NICKS COUSIN, and her husband, Tom, classmate of Nick's at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, young woman with whom Nick begins a romantic relationship WITH. Nick also learns about Daisy and Tom's marriage, Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this Nick GOES to New York City with Tom and Myrtle, At a party in the apartment that Tom keeps for the affair. LATER ON IN THA BOOK NICK GOES TO ONE OF GATBYS PARYT BECAUSE HE WAS INVITED and GETS TO MEET Gatsby himself, Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone and through Jordan Nick later learns more about THIS GATSBY. Gatsby 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's wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy, but she never came. Gatsby wants Nick to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy, but he is afraid that Daisy DOESN’T WANT TO SEE HIM BECAUSE ITS BEEN SO LONG. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house, without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an awkward...

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