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The Great Gatsby: Julia Celer

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a young man named Jay Gatsby who throws lavish parties at his mansion in an attempt to attract his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The story is narrated by Nick Carraway and exposes the shallow, frivolous lives and empty morals of the wealthy upper class in New York during the 1920s. At one of Gatsby's parties, he and Daisy rekindle their romance but she is still married to Tom Buchanan. A tragic accident occurs involving Daisy's car that unravels the relationships between the characters. Gatsby is later shot and killed by George Wilson, the husband of a woman who had

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The Great Gatsby: Julia Celer

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a young man named Jay Gatsby who throws lavish parties at his mansion in an attempt to attract his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The story is narrated by Nick Carraway and exposes the shallow, frivolous lives and empty morals of the wealthy upper class in New York during the 1920s. At one of Gatsby's parties, he and Daisy rekindle their romance but she is still married to Tom Buchanan. A tragic accident occurs involving Daisy's car that unravels the relationships between the characters. Gatsby is later shot and killed by George Wilson, the husband of a woman who had

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The Great Gatsby

Julia Celer 
Author

• The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by


American author F.Scott Fizgerald.
• First published "The Great Gatsby" received mixed
reviews and sold poorly. Fizgerald died in 1940
believing himself to be failure and his work
forgotten, however the novel experienced a
revival during World War II, and became a literary
classic.
Major characters
Nick Carraway
•A Yale University graduate
and the World War I veteran.
He serves as the first-person
narrator of the novel. He works
as a bond salesman. He is
more grounded than the rest
of the character of the novel.
Jay Gatsby
•A young millionaire with
shady buisness conections,
obsessed with Daisy Buchanan
whom he met when he was a
 young military officer.
Daisy Buchanan
•Attractive and self-absorbed
young Nick's cousin.
Before she married Tom
Buchanan she had a romantic
relationship with Gatsby.
Tom Buchanan
•Millionaire who lives in East
egg, and Daisy's husband. He
was a football star at Yale
University. He has a romance
with Myrtle Wilson- wife of a
mechanic and owner of  a
garage.
Jordan Baker
An amateur golfer and Daisy
Buchanan friend. She is Nick's
girlfriend for most of the novel.
Plot summary
The Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick Carraway, who was once Gatsby's neighbor.As the
story opens, Nick is visiting his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband. One day Nick and
Tom( Daisy's husband) are visiting Tom's mistress Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle calls friends to
come over and they spend afternoon drinking at Tom's apartment.
After this Nick meets his neighbour Jay Gatsby, who host weekly parties,and they become
friends. One day Gatsby appears to be in love with Daisy Buchanan who he met as a young
army officer- he bought his house and hosted the elaborate parties in the hopes that she
would notice.
Than Nick invites Daisy and Gatsby to his house where they meet first time after many
years.
Plot summary
After meeting in Nick's house Gatsby and Daisy's affair begins to grow. On one
day they visited city to have a lunch with Tom, Nick and Jordan Baker, where Tom
picks up what's going on between his wife and Gatsby. On the way home Tom, Nick
and Jordan drives in Gatsby's car and Daisy with Jay drive Tom's coupe. During way
 home Myrtle Wilson got hit and killed by a passing car driven by Daisy, but Jay
confesses he will take all the blame. Next day Wilson (husband of killed Myrtel)
sneaks into Jay's house and shoots him and than turns the gun into himself.
After Gatsby's death Nick is the only one who showed up on his funeral.
The novel ends with Nick how we are all like Gatsby, boats moving up a river, going
forward but vontinually feling the pull of the past.

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