This novel takes place in the 1920’s during the Jazz Age. It is a tragic love story ending in jealousy and deceit that lets us all know that things cannot always go back to the way they used to be.

The novel begins in the spring of 1922, with Nick Carraway, who leaves his Midwestern home to enter the bond business in New York City. He rents a small house in West Egg, a village on Long Island made of mansions and the rich. Next door to Nick’s house is the enormous home of Mr. Gatsby.

One evening, Nick has dinner with his distant cousin Daisy Buchanan. There he meets her husband Tom and their lady friend Jordan Baker. During the visit, Nick learns that Tom has a mistress named Myrtle Wilson, who owns a gas station with her husband.

Later that week, Nick is invited to one of Gatsby’s famous parties where he than encounters Jordan Baker once again. They sit at a table together and find their tablemate to be Mr. Gatsby hims

One afternoon, Nick, Jordan and Gatsby have lunch at the Buchanan’s home, and in the course of the conversation, Tom perceives that his wife is in love with Gatsby. They all end up going to the city, with Tom driving Gatsby’s yellow car and Gatsby driving Tom’s. On the way, Tom stops at Wilson’s gas station, to tease and convince Myrtles husband that the car he is driving is in fact his. Tom learns that Myrtles husband suspects she has a secret lover although he does not know his identity.

And the most disheartening weakness would have to be the ending. Nobody was ever told the truth about Daisy and I felt that kind of left the reader with a negative perspective of the novel.

On their return, with Daisy at the wheel, they pass the gas station. Myrtle, who has been locked up by her husband, recognizes Gatsby’s yellow car, as the one Tom was driving earlier, She rushes out onto the road and is killed. Daisy and Gatsby continue on, but Tom stops when he sees a mysterious women lying on the road. After he comes to the realization of who it is, he tells Myrtle’s husband that the car he was in, was not actually his, but

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