Summary of The Great Gatsby
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         The book opens when Nick, the narrator, moves to West Egg on Long Island. He meets his cousin, Daisy, her husband, Tom, and her friend, Jordan, who becomes a very close friend of Nick's. He gets a small window into their lives, as rich people with no responsibilities at all. It turns out that he moves next door to a very rich and mysterious man, who goes by the name of Jay Gatsby. At nights, Nick sees parties always going on, and Nick attends some of them himself. Then he finds out a little about this man. He was a from Louisville, Kentucky, where he had met Daisy, but he had to leave her to join the army, and when he returned, she had gotten married. He had then spent five years searching for her and planning his meet with her, and had chosen a house right accross the bay from hers. Tom, her husband, is cheating on her all the while with a girl from a slum part of Manhattan. Then, at Gatsby's request, Nick invites Daisy oover for tea, and she "happens" to meet Gatsby. They catch up on each other, and soon Daisy is visiting Gatsby almost every day when Tom doesnt notice. Then, on the last day of summer, Nick, Jordan, Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom spend the afternoon at the Plaza Hotel, and Tom notices what is going on between Daisy and Gatsby. A fight breaks out, and Daisy and Gatsby leave. On the way home, they happen to hit a lady in the street, who turns out to be Tom's other girl. Her husband, in a blindness caused by grief, kills Gatsby at his house. Then Tom and Daisy move away, and Nick moves back to the middle-west, where he came from.

Written by Joe