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Great Gatsby Reflection

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The Great Gatsby is possibly F. Scott Fitzgerald 's greatest work. It is a book that provides insightful views of the American social climbers in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is an American classic and a wonderfully haunting work. The novel 's happenings are told with the help of the consciousness of its narrator, Nick Carraway, a graduate from Yale. Upon relocating to New York, he rents a house next door to the mansion of an eccentric millionaire, Jay Gatsby who throws extravagant and lavish parties every Saturday night. Nick lives on an island across from where his rich friend Tom and cousin Daisy live. Tom is having an affair with a middle-class woman named Myrtle Wilson. Unfortunately everyone knows about Tom and Myrtle’s affair except for Daisy and Myrtle’s husband. Nick eventually becomes friends with Gatsby and discovers that Gatsby is in love with Nick’s cousin, Daisy. They nearly got married years ago but Gatsby did not have any money at that time and decided to wait. After meeting Daisy for the second time, they have an affair. After awhile, Tom is wary of Gatsby and tries to prove that the famous Jay Gatsby is not who he appears to be. Daisy becomes angry at her husband’s chauvinistic attitude and decides to leave her husband for Gatsby. However, she later discovers that her lover, Jay Gatsby is not the respected man he claims to be. After finding out that Gatsby gets his money through illegal activities, she then decides to not leave her husband for him. Daisy

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