Summary

The book the Great Gastby is about a man named Nick Carroway. He moves to a part called the West Egg in New York. He is a bondsman. He has family in the East Egg which full of people that were born into wealth. His cousin Daisy and her husband, which is Nick's best friend, live on the West Egg. The story is pretty much about Nick meeting with this man next door whose name is Gastby. He is a very wealthy man and worked his way to richness through illegal selling of alchol. Gastby and Daisy, before he was sent off to war, were together. They were in love but Gastby was a man that came from a poor family and Daisy's family was rich and wanted her to marry a man of wealth and class. Her parents didn't approve of her being with Gastby but she did it anyways. They wrote letters to each other and kept in touch all the time but eventually Daisy met someone and she told Gastby that she was getting married. He was still in love with her but she had to move on, he had been away for to long. He was suppose to go home earlier but at the end of the war there was a mix up and Gastby was sent to Oxford College for six months. By then it was already to late. Daisy met Tom and married him. After that Gastby and Daisy did not speak for five years. Gastby knew that he had to find a way to make Daisy love him again so he started to do illegal business so that Daisy would have the best life ever. When Nick moved in and was invited to one of his parties and Gastby found out that he was Daisy's cousin he arranged a meeting with her. They had tea and from then on Gastby was the happiest man ever. They kept hanging out and Tom, Daisy's husband, was getting jealous and started investigating Gastby. He found out that he was doing illegal business and when the truth came out he fessed up it and told Daisy the truth. He told her it was all for her and she knew he was telling the truth. What Daisy didn't know about Tom was that he was having an affair with a woman in the city. Not only was it an affair but they had an apartment together and had a dog. When Gastby and Tom got in a fight over Daisy and Daisy tells Tom she loves Gastby, they leave. Tom went with Nick and Jordan, Jordan is Nick's girlfriend and a professional golf player, and Daisy went with Gastby. On their way to Gastby's house Daisy is driving and speeding because she's nervous. She Myrtle, Tom's mistress runs out to the car and Daisy doesn't see her. She runs her over and keeps going because she doesn't know what to do. Tom comes to the place where Myrtle was ran over and hears someone tell the description of the car. He comes to the conclusion that it's Gastby that ran her over and is infuriated. From this point on people get mad at each other some people die and the ones that were the ones to blame leave and don'e come back.