Hannah Howey- The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is set in the roaring 20's where the people stay young and the parties never end. It focuses on Jay Gatsby, a well known rich man due to his extravagant parties. The story is narrated by Nick Caraway, a young fellow in search of making making money in stocks. Mr. Caraway and Gatsby have the chance to meet at one of his grand parties and since Mr. Caraway lives right next to Gatsby it would be impossible to decline his invintation being the only guest who received one. After the party Mr. Gatsby requests that Daisy Buchanan be brought over to Mr. Caraways house since she is Nicks cousin. Once Gatsby lays eyes on Daisy a love story unfolds unlike any other. Gatsby and Daisy spend more time together as the days pass and Nick learns of their story. Gatsby had met Daisy a long time ago when he was a young officer in the army, they had fallen in love but when he was sent back to war she began to wait for letters that never came until she was set to marry Tom Buchanan only then did she receive the letter she had waited for. Now that they were together again Gatsby pushed her to divorce Tom so she could be with Gatsby but the harder he pushed the farther she went until it came to a bursting point and in a hotel loft Gatsby confronted Tom. “It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” After the argument Daisy and Gatsby drove back but had an accident which killed a woman, this brought about the end to Gatsby. The man who's wife was killed seeked vengeance and went to kill Mr. Gatsby. No one came to the funeral, least of all Daisy. Her and Tom were moving to a better place less haunted by the past. “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… .” I believe this is a good book because it shows a difference of character and a desire of things that we used to have. It is a well written exciting book!