Book Report The Great Gatsby

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Our narrator, Nick Carraway, begins the book by giving us some advice on how not to criticize people, which his father had told him when he was young. And now it's time to meet our cast of characters: Nick's second cousin once removed Daisy Buchanan is married to a large and entitled husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick, who has most good old-fashioned values from his childhood growing up in the "Middle West," doesn’t seem too impressed by the way Tom acts. Then there is a girl named Jordan a girl, and she quickly becomes a romantic interest for our narrator. Probably because of all the comments that are made about them having a “thing” together in the beginning of the book. While the Buchanans live on the more snazzy East Egg, Nick lives on the less …show more content…
Jay Gatsby, a wealthy and mysterious man who owns a huge mansion next door to Nick and spends lots of his time standing on his lawn and staring at a green light across the bay. Mr. Jay Gatsby soon becomes a person of interest for Nick. Myrtle Wilson who is married to a man by the name of George. Who is a obedient, working class man who owns an auto garage. George seems to put off being a solid man of the roaring twenties. He is also portrayed to be extremely oblivious to his wife's other interests in other men besides him. Back on West Egg, Mr. Jay Gatsby has been having many outrageous very popular parties lately, where everyone who is anyone can come and drink alcohol and think about how Gatsby got so rich. Nick meets and cautiously befriends the interesting man at one of his giant Saturday night affairs. He also begins spending more and more time with Jordan, who might later become a relationship interest. Continuing, Gatsby introduces Nick to his "business partner," Meyer Wolfsheim. Next, Gatsby reveals to Nick that he and Daisy had a love thing before he went away to the war and she married Tom, after a serious case of cold feet. Gatsby then begins to tell Nick that he deeply wants Daisy back, and he then enforces Nick to help him reunite the two …show more content…
Gatsby is outed as a bootlegger and Daisy is unable to leave her husband. Everyone then drives home probably all contemplating the events that happened this evening. Then an unfortunate event occurs when Tom's mistress, Myrtle, is hit and killed by Gatsby's car in which Gatsby and Daisy are riding in. Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy was driving, but that he's going to take the blame for it because he loves her. Tom, meanwhile, throws Gatsby under the bus by telling Myrtle's husband where to find him. After all of these interesting events it ends in George Wilson and Gatsby being dead. Daisy and Tom leave New York, to not be involved with the mess which has formed. Nick, who by now has grown tired of the drama, ends things off with Jordan. He takes the job of organizing Gatsby's funeral. Gatsby's dad attends the funeral with more fascinating information about his past. Standing on Gatsby's lawn and looking at the green light, which turned out to be the light in front of Daisy's house across the bay, Nick concludes with a recollection of the events in the
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