Nick Carroway In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a wonderful novel that follows the mystical life of Jay gatsby from the point of view of Nick Carroway. Nick is, a young man from Minnesota, who moves to New York to learn about bonds. He rents a house in West Egg Long Island ,his little cottage just so happens to be right next door to a gigantic gothic mansion that belongs to Gatsby. Nick soon comes to find that his neighbor throws large extravagant parties each saturday night.

Nick drives out to East Egg, right across the bay one night to have dinner with his cousin, Daisy, and her husband,Tom who had gone to school with Nick at Yale. Daisy and Tom introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, a beautiful, young woman who later becomes Nick’s girlfriend. While
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He meets up with Jordan Baker at the party, and together they meet Gatsby himself, Gatsby’s young age and friendly yet reserved attitude surprise Nick, and he becomes interested in the mysterious man who had quite a reputation ” Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan alone, he tells her that he knew Daisy a long time ago when he was still a soldier and fell in love with her. this is why he bought the mansion right across the bay from Daisy’s own extravagant home. his wild parties are simply an attempt to impress Daisy, though she has yet to stumble in on any of his events. Now Gatsby wants Nick to invite Daisy over for tea so that he can be reunited with her. With a little reluctance Nick agrees and invites daisy over. Her and Gatsby have an awkward reunion but soon after Nick leaves them alone they remember their love for one another and begin an …show more content…
The car described turned out to be Gatsby’s car. They head home, and Nick goes to talk to Gatsby. Gatsby reveals to nick that Daisy was the driver who killed Myrtle but he intended to take the blame. The next day Tom tells Myrtle’s husband that it was Gatsby who had killed his wife, George assumes that it must have been Gatsby who was having the affair with Myrtle and goes to find him. When he finally does reach Gatsby’s home he shoots in in the pool and then shoots

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