The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald-
Chapter 1
The narrator of this book is Nick Carraway. Nick talked about how he
came to New York, he worked hard trying to make himself a successful
businessman. He moved to a small house on West Egg, very near to Tom and Daisy
Buchanan, who lived on East Egg. Daisy was Nick´s cousin and Tom was a man that he
known at Yale University. One evening after the moving he went to his
cousin´s house for dinner and there he met Jordan Baker a professional
athlete,who was Daisy´s friend. Tom got a phone call and Jordan told Nick that the
person on the phone was Tom´s lover, and Daisy knew that, everyone knew
about Tom´s affair. She also asked Nick if he had met his neightbour
Gatsby but he hadn’t.
When Nick arrived home after the party he saw Gatsby standing out on
the lawn. He almost called him, but he seemed happy to be alone, and when
he looked at Gatsby again he had gone.

Chapter 2
Tom invited Nick out for an afternoon. On their way to the city they
picked up Tom´s mistress, called Myrtle. She was Wilson´s wife, a man who had
a garage. In the city, Nick knew Catherine, Mirtle´s sisterand they went
to Catherine´s apartment for a small party and Nick became drunk. He
talked with Catherine about the state of Tom and Daisy marriage and she said
that Tom could divorce Daisy except for the fact that she was catholic, Nick
realized that Daisy wasn´t catholic. At the end of the evening Tom and
Myrtle quarreled about Daisy and he hit her and broke her nose. After
that, Nick come back to his home.

Chapter 3
One summer evening Nick went to Gatsby´s house for the first time. At
the party he sw Jordan and stayed with her most of the evening. Gatsby was
a very mysterious man and no one knew when he had come, from or how he
obtained his money. Some people said that he was a spy during the war
and others thought thet he had killed a man.
Finally, Nick met Gatsby but at first he didn´t know who he was and He
talked with him. The man asked Nick if he was in France during the war
and he said that he had been there.
But their talk was short because Gatsby had another bussiness. Nick
noticed that Gatsby was unhappy and distant from everyone. Later Gatsby talked
to Jordan and then she told Nick that Gatsby told her something amazing
and that she couldn´t talk about that right now, but she asked Nick to see
her another day. They started to spend time together.

Chapter 4
One morning Gatsby´s car stopped outside Nick´s door and invited Nick
to have lunch with him. Gatsby told that his parents had died and left him
a lot of money, and after the war, he lived in great cities and he was
educated at Oxford. Gatsby also told Nick that he had a “big request”
to make him but that Jordan would talk to him about that later.
When Nick was having lunch with Gatsby, he saw Tom came to the
restaurant and thought that he would introduce Tom but Gatsby had gone.

Chapter 5
Nick met Jordan and she told him that Gatsby knew Daisy. They had known
each other in the Middle West five years before and they were in love. She
told him how Daisy knew Gatsby (he was a soldier in those days) but he had
to go to war and they lost contact. After that She got married with Tom and
soon after their honeymoon she were expecting a baby.
Nick thought that it was a coincidence for them to be living near now,
but Jordan said that Gatsby bought the house to be close to Daisy.
It was clear now: Gatsby wanted Nick to help him to see Daisy again.

Chapter 6
Gatsby said to Nick that he wanted to invite Daisy for tea. The next
day Nick invited Daisy to teaand he told her not bring Tom, when she
arrived,Nick went out to meet her and then Gatsby appeared. That was a big
surprise for Daisy and he invited her to his house. Then Nick left them alone.

Chapter 7
The next party, Gatsby invited Tom and Daisy. He told Nick that he
would make things right for her, he would do anything to please her. Gatsby
couldn´t find a reason why he and Daisy shouldn´t be happy forever
because he wanted to recreate all the moments with her , that was his dream. He
believed that he could be happy with Daisy. Tom inmediately disliked
the party and began to question how Gatsby had became so rich.

Chapter 8
Tom found out that his wife was in love with Gatsby, because one day in
his house he saw them together. After that Tom talked with Jordan and he
said that he was beginning to find out the truth about Gatsby. Then Gatsby
invited all the group to go out and Tom took his car and drove with
Jordan and Nick. Disy went with Gatsby in Tom´s car.
Tom stopped at Wilson garage to get gas and speak with him. Wilson
thought his wife was having a affair and he wanted to get some money to move
out.
At the same time Nick saw Myrtle looking down at Jordan from an
upstairs window, she was jealous because she thought Jordan was Tom´s wife.
They decided to get a hotel room and make a few cold drinks because
they were very hot.Gatsby and Daisy began to act more obvious about their love in front
of everybodyand Tom gets angry. Gatsby said that Daisy was in love with
him and Tom said that he knew that Gatsby was a bootlegger, but Daisy
decided to leave with him.

Chapter 9
Wilson and Myrtle had a fight and she ran to the road just when two
cars were coming from the same direction. She was hit and killed but the car
didn´t stop, later Nick knew that the car was Gatsby and Daisy was
driving it.Wilson belived that Tom was who hit his wife but Tom said that he
wasn´t. Nick talked with Gatsby, at Tom´s house and he admited that Daisy was
driving the car and he wanted to wait outside the house to make sure
that nothing happened to Daisy.

Chapter 10
The next morning Nick went to Gatsby´s house. There they talked about
Gatsby´s past and how he knew Daisy. After that, Nick left Gatsby and
he decided to use his pool to relax.Wilson was looking for Gatsby because he thought
that he was the killer and when he found Gatsby he shot him and then he killed himself.
Nick called Daisy to speak to her but she and Tom had left. A few days
Later, Henry Gatz (Gatsby´s father) came to the house because he learnt about
his son´s death in the newspaper.The truth was that James Gatz had started a new life
as Jay Gatsby.He was the son of a poor farmer in the Middle West. He had left home when
he was 16 but James Gatz was ambitious. One day Gatz saw Dain Cody (a rich man)
and he asked him for a job, Gatsby stayed with him for five years, until the
old man died, but Gatsby didn´t get the old man´s money. He learnt how the
rich lived and he knew wath he wanted.

Chapter 11
That was the end of Gatsby´s story. After Gatsby´s death, Nick couldn´t
live on the East anymore he wanted to go back to the West because he wanted
to return to the place where he had felt happy.
One afternoon Nick saw Tom in the city, Nick was upset with him and
asked him what he had said to Wilson. Nick found out that Tom was the one who
told Wilson that Gatsby was having an affair with his wife and thet he was
who killed Myrtle. Tom had done what he had want to do. Nick said that Tom
and Daisy were rich, careless people and they took what they wanted and
destroyed what they didn´t need.
At the end of the book Nick said that Gatsby had followed his dream and
nearly mada it come true. He said that everybody had a dream and like
Gatsby we had to follow our dream. He finally said that Gatsby made his dream
come true.

by Julieta Pezzella. Adults 3