In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the Jazz Age, young Nick Carraway, fresh from the Midwest, comes to 1922 New York where, at a Long Island party, he becomes involved in the lives of Tom and Daisy Buchanan, a glamorous but unhappy couple. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the Jazz Age, young Nick Carraway, fresh from the Midwest, comes to 1922 New York where, at a Long Island party, he becomes involved in the lives of Tom and Daisy Buchanan, a glamorous but unhappy couple. Through them, he meets Jay Gatsby, their fabulously ...
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In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the Jazz Age, young Nick Carraway, fresh from the Midwest, comes to 1922 New York where, at a Long Island party, he becomes involved in the lives of Tom and Daisy Buchanan, a glamorous but unhappy couple. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the Jazz Age, young Nick Carraway, fresh from the Midwest, comes to 1922 New York where, at a Long Island party, he becomes involved in the lives of Tom and Daisy Buchanan, a glamorous but unhappy couple. Through them, he meets Jay Gatsby, their fabulously wealthy neighbor, who has a mysterious past and is renowned for his extravagant drunken parties. Gatsby has long been in love with Daisy, who rejected him when he was young and poor--and whom he wants to win back, now that he has more to offer. During a drive back to Long Island from a party in the city, Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, hits and kills a woman names Myrtle Wilson, who is Tom's mistress, in a hit-and-run accident. Myrtle's husband, led by Tom to believe it was Gatsby who ran down his wife, shoots and kills him. Gatsby's funeral is a sad irony: only Nick and Gatsby's father attend. Disillusioned by life among the rich and careless in the east, Nick decides to return to the Midwest. THE GREAT GATSBY has long been celebrated as the archetypal American novel, and Gatsby as the classic self-made man who believes in the American dream that wealth brings happiness, and is betrayed by it.
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