The Great Gatsby4

A detailed Summary of The Great Gatsby4

The novel The Great Gatsby is set during the 1920's on Long Island, New York.

In the novel, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby has a dream that a majority people would

want to live. The dream is made up of things that may vary from one person to another,

but it is still a basic dream for most people. Finding someone that you truly love and that

truly loves you back is one part of the dream. Being happy is another. The final part is

having wealth and being in the upper class of society. This dream that is pursued by so

many can endanger the future of someone because they never know what they would have

Gatsby's main goal throughout the novel is to attain true love with a former love,

Daisy Buchanan. He knows that Daisy is married to a rich man, Tom Buchanan, so he

uses poor judgement and assumes that becoming rich will win her back. To be close to

her and try to increase his chances of being with her, Gatsby moves across the bay to

West Egg Island. Nick Carraway, the narrator and Gatsby's main friend throughout the

novel, is an acquaintance of the Buchanans and helps set up a meeting between Daisy and

Jay. Gatsby finally meets Daisy and begins to spend more time with her, hoping

money. He acquired material things with his wealth and showed them off to prove to

Daisy back but always failed and never attained true happiness. He moved near to his

not desire things that require a great deal of changing to acquire. Most of the time, if

leave her husband. He also felt that gaining many material possessions would make him

Gatsby's automobile, one of his possessions attained by wealth, lead to his downfall. His

way when Fitzgerald writes, "A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows

Wealth is the only idea in the dream that is obtained by Gatsby, but it doesn't

bring him what he expected and desired. Gatsby built up his fortune hoping that his

Love is something you earn and can't buy. Finally, the only way to gain happiness is to

Approximate Word count = 870
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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