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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F . Scott Fitzgerald

Pg .1 F . Scott Fitzgerald 's masterpiece The Great Gatsby This novel on the surface

looks as if it is about a tragic romantic story of lost love between a man Jay Gatsby

and a woman , Daisy Buchanan . But it involves a much larger less romantic aspect . The

novel takes place over a few months during the summer of 1922 on Long Island , New

York . It is a commentary of the disappearing American dream during an era of prosperity

and material

excess . Daisy is that lost American dream for Jay Gatsby

The story is about the good looking and mysterious Jay Gatsby who lives on

Long Island on the North Shore in a house where he entertains hundreds of guests who at

one of his huge parties . Gatsby is a mystery . No one knows how he had made his money

Some say that he 'd stolen it some say he inherited it , and some say that he killed people

to get it . Nick Carraway , Daisy 's cousin , who lives next door to Gatsby . Nick Carraway

represents the idealistic person , who is a part of the rich and beautiful society , and is still

able to retain his goodness , and morality . Daisy and her crude but wealthy husband

represent the frivolous , selfish rich , the American Dream . [He had one of those rare

smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it that you may come across four or five

times in life . It faced , or seemed to face , the whole external world for an instant and then

concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor . It understood you just as

far as you wanted to be understood , believed in you , as you would like to believe in

yourself Chapt III Pg .53] . I find Gatsby to be a lost lonely man trying desperately to

regain his past by wanting Daisy back

Gatsby reveals to Nick that he and Daisy had an affair before the War and her

marriage to Tom . Gatsby also reveals his real name as James Gatz born of a poor

The Great Gatsby By F . Scott Fitzgerald

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Midwestern family . He had accumulated his wealth through shady dealings to make

himself the kind of man he thinks Daisy wants . His dream and one and only goal is to

get Daisy back . She is Gatsby 's green light , his goal . [Gatsby believed in the green

light the Orgasmic future that year by year recedes before us . It eluded us then , but that 's

no matter . -Tomorrow we will run faster , stretch out our arms further .and then one

fine morning- so we beat on , boats against the current , borne back ceaselessly into the

past , Chapt IX Pg . 198]

Gatsby tries to persuade Nick to help bring Daisy and him back together

however Gatsby is unable to win her back because she is to her rich

volatile , crude husband and instead she has a flighty , dangerous frivolous affair with

Gatsby . [I...

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