F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everybody dies alone
Critique of American dream
Jordan Baker
Represents 'modern woman' in the 1920s
Nick's Brief romantic interest
Nick Carraway
Friends with Gatsby
Narrator of the story
George Wilson
Idolizes Myrtle
Tom Buchanan
Old Money
Myrtle Wilson
Jay Gatsby
Protagonist
idolizes Daisy
Daisy Buchanan
Socialite
Happily Married
The moral of The Great Gatsby is that the American Dream is ultimately unattainable.
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
Set in New York in the 1920s wherein it depicts lack moral values in a high class society
Beginning
Nick's move to NY and befriending Gatsby
Reunites Gatsby and Daisy
Middle
Gatsby and Daisy are happy together briefly
Tension erupts as things don't turn out as gatsby envisages
End
Gatsby takes the blame for Daisy's car incident
Nick's realisation that his neighbour had no true friends and is left lonely himself