The-Great-Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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About This Book
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a masterpiece of American literature set in the summer of 1922 on Long Island's North Shore. The novel follows narrator Nick Carraway as he becomes entangled in the world of his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire consumed by his desire to reunite with Nick's cousin Daisy Buchanan.
Gatsby's lavish parties, his obsessive pursuit of a lost love, and the hollow glamour of the Jazz Age come together in a story that exposes the dark underside of the American Dream. Through Fitzgerald's luminous prose, we witness the collision of old money and new money, idealism and corruption, and the impossibility of recapturing the past.
The novel remains one of the most widely read and studied works in English, celebrated for its precise language, vivid imagery, and devastating commentary on wealth, class, and aspiration in America.
Characters in The-Great-Gatsby
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Pammy Buchanan
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Henry Gatz
Henry C. Gatz is Gatsby’s modest Midwestern father, whose brief appearance illuminates Gatsby’s humble origins and lifelong drive to better himself. Through Mr. Gatz’s quiet pride and the artifacts he brings, the story contrasts aspiration with background and deepens the novel’s themes of reinvention, class, and the distance between who we are and who we hope to become.
Tom Buchanan
A scion of old money and Daisy Buchanan’s domineering husband, Tom represents entrenched privilege and the moral emptiness behind it. A former Yale athlete and avid polo player, he wields wealth, status, and physical intimidation to control those around him. His prejudices and infidelities set much of the novel’s tension in motion, challenging Gatsby’s romantic quest and exposing the era’s hypocrisy without revealing major plot turns.
Nick Carraway
Nick Carraway is the novel’s first-person narrator—a Yale-educated bond salesman from the Midwest who rents a modest house in West Egg and becomes the neighbor and confidant of Jay Gatsby. As Daisy Buchanan’s cousin and a friend to several key figures, he moves easily between social circles, observing the excesses and illusions of Jazz Age New York. His measured, reflective voice frames the story’s events and themes, providing a moral lens and shaping how readers interpret the characters and their world without dominating the action himself.
Myrtle Wilson
Myrtle is the garage owner’s wife who yearns to escape her working-class life, and her ambition draws her into the orbit of wealth and excess. Through her social climbing, bold temperament, and fraught relationships, she exposes the class tensions, material desires, and moral compromises that drive the world of the story, helping to set in motion conflicts that reveal the novel’s critique of the American Dream.
Jay Gatsby
Jay Gatsby is the enigmatic, self-made millionaire of West Egg whose opulent parties and carefully curated persona captivate New York’s Jazz Age elite. Through his charm, mystery, and unwavering idealism, he becomes the focal point of the narrator’s curiosity and the catalyst for exploring themes of class, ambition, reinvention, and the shimmering promises—and perils—of the American Dream.
Catherine
Myrtle Wilson’s sister, Catherine moves in New York party circles and appears at the raucous apartment gathering with Tom Buchanan, where her chatter, gossip, and easy cynicism color Nick’s view of the city’s flashy, careless set. She helps frame the social world surrounding the central affair, spreading rumors about Gatsby and offering blasé opinions on marriage and divorce, and later tries to manage scandal within her circle, illustrating how image and convenience often trump truth in the novel’s Jazz Age milieu.
Owl Eyes
Owl Eyes is a minor yet striking observer who turns up at Gatsby’s parties, most memorably in the mansion’s library where he marvels that the books are real. Comic and tipsy but unusually perceptive, he functions as a chorus-like witness who sees through surfaces, highlighting the novel’s preoccupation with authenticity versus illusion and sharpening its commentary on how people misread one another.
George Wilson
George Wilson is the meek, overworked owner of a run-down garage in the desolate “valley of ashes,” and the husband of Myrtle Wilson. He embodies the novel’s themes of class, exhaustion, and the human cost of the American Dream’s glittering promises. Though quiet and deferential, his circumstances and relationships place him at a crucial crossroads in the story, where choices by wealthier characters reverberate through his life and drive key turns in the plot.
Ewing Klipspringer
Ewing Klipspringer, nicknamed “the boarder,” is a social parasite who effectively lives at Jay Gatsby’s mansion, playing the piano and enjoying the opulence while giving little in return. He serves as a satirical emblem of the Jazz Age’s shallow opportunism, illustrating how fair‑weather acquaintances exploit wealth and status and then drift away when the thrill or advantage is gone.
Jordan Baker
Jordan Baker is a celebrated professional golfer and Daisy Buchanan’s sophisticated friend, whose cool detachment and modern independence embody the Jazz Age elite. Through her flirtation with Nick Carraway and her insider knowledge, she helps draw him into the social world orbiting Gatsby and the Buchanans, serving as both confidante and commentator on their moral carelessness while highlighting themes of deception, privilege, and the era’s shifting values.
Daisy Buchanan
Daisy is Nick Carraway’s cousin and Tom Buchanan’s wife, a dazzling figure of old-money privilege whose charm and evasiveness captivate those around her. She embodies the allure and moral vacancy of Jazz Age high society, becoming the focal point of Jay Gatsby’s idealized longing and the social tensions that drive the novel’s central conflicts.
Dan Cody
Dan Cody is a fabulously wealthy mining and yachting magnate who takes the young James Gatz under his wing, exposing him to opulence and the habits of the elite. His mentorship catalyzes Gatz’s transformation into Jay Gatsby, shaping Gatsby’s tastes, ambitions, and mythic self-invention that drive the novel’s central arc.
Meyer Wolfsheim
Meyer Wolfsheim is Gatsby’s well‑connected associate in New York’s criminal underworld, a famed gambler said to have fixed the 1919 World Series. His presence links Gatsby to illicit enterprises, illuminating the novel’s themes of corruption beneath Jazz Age glamour and the blurred line between respectability and crime, while also showcasing the influence of powerful, shadowy figures on the era’s social circles.
Key Scenes & Storyboard
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A lone, weather‑beaten bungalow sits on West Egg at dusk: an old Dodge parked crookedly, a Finnish cook seen in the doorway muttering to the stove, and a small empty patch where a dog has run off. Across the glittering bay looms a vast, ivy‑clad mansion—an impossibly grand silhouette against the sky. The contrast between the humble foreground and the colossal house across the water should feel sharp and telling.
A shining red‑and‑white Georgian Colonial stretches quarter‑mile lawns toward the sea as Tom Buchanan stands on the porch in riding clothes, domineering and taut, watching Nick approach in his car. French windows glow gold, and through them Daisy and a pale, cool young woman move like reflections in the room. The house itself is alive with sunny, showy wealth—Tom's bulk and posture make the place feel both grand and menacing.
Inside a bright rosy drawing room two girls in white float on an enormous couch like anchored balloons; Jordan Baker sits motionless with chin up, Daisy laughs, breathless and thrilling as she takes Nick's hand and murmurs she’s 'p‑paralyzed with happiness.' The curtains billow and candlelight flickers across a wedding‑cake ceiling, making the scene both intimate and unreal—Daisy's charm is intoxicating and fragile at once.
At the dining table Tom erupts into a loud, contemptuous lecture about 'The Rise of the Coloured Empires,' his voice booming and posture arrogant; Daisy and Jordan exchange ironic, careless glances as if deflecting him with flirtatious lightness. A telephone's shrill ring pierces the scene and the candles are relit pointlessly, leaving a charged, slightly absurd tension in the air. Tom's bulk dominates the frame while the women’s small gestures convey bored complicity.
A hush replaces the dinner uproar as Jordan leans forward, voice lowered and conspiratorial: she tells Nick, almost casually, that 'Tom's got some woman in New York.' The revelation lands heavy—Nick's face goes still, stunned—and the domestic gaiety slides into a quieter, sharper atmosphere of secrets. The library's lamp light throws faces into warm pools, making the whispered news feel intimate and poisonous.
On a wicker settee in the velvet dusk Daisy cradles her face and confesses, half laughing, how when her baby was born she hoped for a girl so 'she'll be a fool—that's the best thing.' Her words are tender and bitter; the sunset gilds her, making the confession both intimate and quietly tragic. Nick watches the bright, practiced gaiety slip to smirk and insincerity, sensing the loneliness underneath.
Late at night on the lawn of his colossal neighbor, a solitary figure stands with hands in his pockets, then suddenly stretches out his arms toward the dark water in a curious, trembling gesture. Far seaward a single green light gleams—minute and far away—while the figure's posture is almost worshipful, melancholy and hopeful at once. When Nick blinks the figure is gone, leaving him alone under the vast, unquiet sky.
A wide, desolate expanse of ash and soot—grotesque ridges like dead gardens—stretches beneath a bleached sky. Above it all looms the enormous, weary painted eyes on an old billboard, watching the dumping‑ground and the gray, moving figures below.
Themes
Why Read The-Great-Gatsby?
The Great Gatsby endures because it captures something universal about human longing — the belief that if we just try hard enough, we can bend reality to match our dreams. Fitzgerald's writing is among the most beautiful in American literature, with sentences that shimmer like the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.
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