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Int The Great Gatsby

By Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Characters

• Jay Gatsby: he’s the embodiment of the American dream. Gatsby’s reputation precedes him: Gatsby himself doesn’t appear in a speaking role until Chapter 3.
• Jordan Baker: Daisy’s old friend. She knows the secrets of the Buchanans.
• Nick Carraway: the narrator. He becomes friend with Jay Gatsby.
• Daisy Buchanan: the woman whom Gatsby loves. She is vulnerable and a coward.
• Myrtle Wilson: Tom’s lover. She wants to live a better life, in richness. She want to elope with Tom.
• Tom Buchanan: the villain of the story. He’s Daisy’s husband. His jealousy and hate for Gatsby will lead him to consider JG guilty.
• George Wilson: Myrtle’s husband. He’s a poor, ignorant person, easily influenciable. At the end of the novel, he will kill Gatsby to take revenge on Myrtle, influenced by Tom.

Una vita smodata

Plot

• Nick Carraway moves to NYC, finds a job in bond business and rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island.
• His neighbour in West Egg is Jay Gatsby.
• One evening, Nick is invited for dinner by her cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, who has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who is married with a poor mechanical and lives in the West Egg.
• During the summer, Nick receives an invitation for one Gatsby’s party.
• Gatsby is interested in Daisy: all the parties are just a way to impress her.
• Nick decides to invite both Gatsby and Daisy at his house for a tea.
• Gatsby is nervous about every single detail could go wrong (video), but soon after, they re-establish their connection.
• Tom is deeply outraged by the thought of his wife’s unfaithfulness.
• He invites everyone for lunch and forces them to go to NYC.
• Nick with Jordan and Tom in Gatsby’s yellow car, whereas Gatsby with Daisy, they stop at Wilson’s garage and learn that Wilson has discovered his wife’s infidelity and plans to move.
• In city, Tom and Gatsby have a fight, in which part of Gatsby’s past is revealed. The yellow car hits her.
• Daisy is shocked by this revelation and, panicking, rides away with him.
• Myrtle had fought with his husband and throws herself out on the street.
• When Nick, Jordan and Tom drive back, they discover the accident and learn it was a yellow car.