The Great Gatsby

A detailed Summary of The Great Gatsby


As you read the book The Great Gatsby you are introduced to four amazing characters.

The author Fitzgerald writes in a limited first person, yet we grow to love and hate the

characters threw out the book. Fitzgerald uses imagery and dialogue to push us deep into

his four main characters heads. This helps us to understand there thoughts and there

Nick, the narrator, is the character that we read the book The Great Gatsby

throughs eyes. We learn first hand about him through his thoughts and the different

reactions Nick has to situations that he gets him self into threw out the book. As a reader

you feel the closest to Nick because you are able to listen in on his thoughts and how he

feels about the other characters, the story is told from Nicks point of view. this makes us

as readers like him more than we like the other characters.

Daisy on the other hand is a character that we are not able to know first hand what


cousin, and helps to reinforce the prior statements.

taunts Tom. This shows his lack of respect for women and his inability to control himself

body capable of enormous leverage-a cruel body." (11) This starts our imagination going

or the lack there of. Daisys is an extremely shallow character that often times we find that

presenting us with defined and believable characters even with the difficult writing style he



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Approximate Word count = 659
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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