Summary of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a book about rich people that are

fighting about women, money etc. After I read this book I

realized that even if you are rich you don t have to be

happy. There are two main characters: Nick Carraway and Jay

Gatsby, both rich men. Here s the story in a short

version... Nick Carraway is a young man from a wealthy

family, living in a Middle Western city. The Carraway s are

something of a clan actually. Nick s grandfather came here

in 1851 and started a business, which his father carries on

today. Nick graduated from Yale University in 1915, and just

a little later he was in the Great War. When he came back he

decided to go East and learn the bond business. He came East

permanently in the spring of 1922. He found a house on the

island which extends due East of New York. He has a

beautiful house in a place called West Egg. That was on Long

Island.

He made contact with his neighbor living closest to

him, Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby was a very rich man with an

enormous property. His house had a big lawn, a swimming pool

and an exclusive garden. Despite all his money, he wasn t a

very happy man. There was no woman in his life, just

servants. His way of getting in touch with people was

through his parties. He had parties in his home all the

time. The house always got messed up, so the servants had a

lot to do the day after the party.

Nick got to know a lot of people, some better than

others. One of the people he met was a man called Tom

Buchanan. He was the kind of man nobody likes. When he got

angry, he would take it out on his wife, Daisy. He would

beat her, once he even broke her nose. He always got drunk

at parties and started arguments. He was also a cheater. He

had a mistress named, Myrtle Wilson. She lived in an

expensive apartment in New York, which Tom paid for.

Daisy knew about Tom s affair with Myrtle she just

never spoke a word to him about it. She actually fell in

love with Gatsby and when Tom found out he got very angry.

What Gatsby didn t know was that Tom and Daisy had a

daughter. When he found out that he didn t know what to say

or do. Daisy said that they couldn t meet anymore, that it

was over. Gatsby dies in the end. How you ask? I can t tell

you everything, that would ruin the ending for you. In the

end, Nick left the East Coast and went home. He had seen

nothing but disasters and unhappiness after he came to West

Egg.