Dalton Davis- The Great Gatsby

I read the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In the great Gatsby nick caraway moves to New York from Minnesota in the summer of 1922.He moves to New York to pursue his interest in the bond business. He rents a house in the west egg district of Long Island. The west egg district is a community of the rich and so it is a very wealthy community. The people who live here don’t have very many social connections due to their accumulation of wealth. In an effort to make social connections the rich display their wealth like nicks neighbor jay Gatsby who throws wild parties at his mansion. Nick was schooled at Yale and has social connections in east egg. In east egg lives his cousin daisy, and her husband tom a classmate of nicks. Daisy and tom introduce nick to a Ms. Jordan Baker whom he begins a relationship with. Jordan tell nick about tom lover myrtle Wilson. Shortly after his learning of toms mistress tom takes nick to New York where he meets myrtle and attends her party at tom’s apartment he keeps for his affair. During the party tom breaks myrtles nose after she taunts him about daisy.  Later that summer nick gets invited to one of Gatsby’s parties. Where he meets Ms. Baker, together they meet mister Gatsby himself.  Mr. Gatsby is a young man with an English accent who calls everyone “old sport”. Gatsby speaks to Jordan alone and tells her that he knew daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. He also tells her that he spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of her dock across the bay.  He tries to catch daisy’s attention by throwing his extravagant parties. He asks nick to arrange for them to meet, but he is afraid that his feelings will be unrequited.  Nick plans to have them meet at a tea party that he will arrange. While at the tea party, Gatsby and daisy start an affair.  Tom begins to grow increasingly suspicious of his wife Gatsby makes the mistake of staring at daisy and tom realizes that he loves her. After toms confrontation with Gatsby daisy realizes that her allegiance is with tom. Later daisy hits myrtle with Gatsby’s car and Gatsby intends to take the blame.  I would recommend this book because it shows the consequences of having so much money without the ability to support oneself with it.