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The plot of the novel
• Gatsby is a poor youth from the Midwest.He falls in love with Daisy,a girl from a wealthy family.As a poor lad,Gatsby is too poor to marry her,so Daisy is married to a rich young man named Tom Buchanan.Datermined to win Daisy back,Gatsby engages himself in Bootlegging and other illegal activities,thus earns enough money to buy a magnificent mansion.
• Nick Carraway –at the start of the plot, a newly arrived resident of West Egg.He serves as the firstperson narrator of the novel. He is Gatsby's nextdoor neighbor and a bond salesman. • Jay Gatsby – Lives next to Nick in amansion;throws huge parties,conplete with catered food,open bars;people come from everywhere to attend these parties,but no one seems to know much about the host. • Daisy Fay Buchanan –Shallow girl who is the emodiment of Gatsby’s dreams;she was going to marry Gatsby but he went off to war.
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence,idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.
The plot of the novel
• There he hosts dazzling parties every weenkend in the hope of attracting the Buchanans to come.By chance his nextdoor nerighbor,Nick Carraway,is Daisy’s relative and he helps Gatsby to make an appointment.They finally come and Gatsby meets Daisy again.But he finds Daisy is no longer the ideal love of his dream.
The wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Sayre at about 16, in dance costume
•Attitude towards money :contradictory and complex •Double vision:knowing it well inside;seeing it ironically outside •Special experience:familiar with life style,mental state and moral standards of the rich •Critical of the rich and showing the disintegrating effects of wealth on the emotional make-up
• Tom Buchanan – Huaband of Daisy;a cruel man who lives life irresponsibly • Jordan Baker –A cynical and conceited woman who cheats in golf;wants Nick to go out with her. • Myrtle Wilson -Tom has an affair with this married woman,and then abandons her after he become bored with her. • George B. Wilson –Mytle’s husband,the lifeless,exhausted owner of a run-down auto shop at the edge of the valley of ashes.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby (his most famous), and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also Fitzgerald's friendship wrote many short stories that with Hemingway was treat themes of youth and quite vigorous promise along with age and despair.
• A sense of loss and disillusionment come over him.Daisy and Tom do not really love each other.In fact,Tom has a mistress by the name of Myrtle Wilson,who is the wife of the owner of a garage.One day Daisy quarrles with Tom and in a fit of anger she drives Gatsyby’s car and kills Myrtle in an accident.
The plot of the novel
The plot of the novel
• In order to protect themselves,Daisy and Tom plot to shift the blame to Gatsby,saying Gatsby has an affair with Myrtle and he kills her eventuanlly.Myrtle’s husband George Wilson breaks into Gatsby’s house and shots him to death.The Buchanans escape,and the only two persons attending Gatsby’s funeral are Nick and Gatsby’s father,who reads the news in newspaper.
The author of The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels andshort stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.