The Great Gatsby (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1922
- Setting: New York City and Long Island
- Principal Characters: Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, Jay Gatsby
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, Class consciousness, 1920’s, Honesty, Upper classes, Accidents, Drinking or drunkenness, Corruption, Gangsters, Organized crime, Millionaires, Parties
- Locales: Long Island, NY
The Story:
Young Nick Carraway decided to forsake the hardware business of his family in the Midwest in order to sell bonds in New York City. He took a small house in West Egg on Long Island and there became involved in the lives of his neighbors. At a dinner party at the home of Tom Buchanan, he renewed his acquaintance with Tom’s wife, Daisy, a distant cousin, and he met an attractive young woman, Jordan Baker. Almost at once he learned that Tom and Daisy were not happily married. It appeared that Daisy knew her husband was deliberately unfaithful.
Nick soon learned...
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