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The Great Gatsby: Summary

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Let’s start out by saying Money cannot buy happiness. Gatsby died trying to get happiness. Gatsby once met a girl named Daisy. Daisy is Gatsby’s neighbor’s cousin. Gatsby met Daisy 5 years ago and they dated for a month or two, and then he got shipped off to WWI. Gatsby returned a war hero and inherited some money. He bought a house across the lake from Daisy’s house so he can be closer to her. He reaches toward the green light across the bay. He has a giant house to try and impress her. Gatsby throws parties in hope that Daisy might pop in on one of them. Gatsby has Nick invite Daisy to tea so Gatsby can talk to her. After tea, then they go to Gatsby’s house and Gatsby shows Daisy his imported shirts from england. Daisy says she has never …show more content…

He was super nice, super rich and super awesome. He had a pool he never swam once in, but that all changed when the fire nation attacked. Lol, actually, he took a swim and George Wilson decided to shoot him while he took a “first and final” dive. Gatsby was waiting for Daisy to call him but he never got the call. George shot him in the chest and decided to shoot himself all because his wife got hit by Gatsby’s car, driving by Daisy (he should not have taken the fall). Gatsby was famous; he never got pulled over, but instead, he showed the cop a card saying his name and the cop went to go eat more donuts and drink more coffee. Gatsby once asked Nick to invite Daisy to tea so he could talk to …show more content…

Nick went out to give them some privacy, and he came back to Gatsby and Daisy talking. They caught up and went to Gatsby’s house to see his cool stuff. Gatsby showed Daisy his collection of rare shirts (as stated at the start of this paper). Gatsby then got Klipspringer, a servant of great talent, to play the piano for them. He played the Piano, and Gatsby, Nick, and Daisy started dancing and having a really fun time. Daisy came over a lot and Gatsby thought that his servants were gossiping. So, one day he fired all his servants and hired new ones. Nick called Gatsby and said: “Gatsby, I heard you fired all your servants. Is this true”? Gatsby then said: “Yes, Daisy has been coming over a lot lately, and so I suspected my servants of

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