... simplest level, The Great Gatsby is Nick Carraway's narration and recollection of events stemming from his meeting and subsequent interaction with Jay Gatsby during the summer of 1922 in Long Island, New York. Nick Carraway, too, was seeking his piece of the American Dream by moving to New York from the Midwest to take job as a bond salesman " I decided to go ... , Tom Buchanan has an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson, the wife of a gas station proprietor down in the valley of the ashes - an industrial and unsightly area of Long Island that one passes through going to New York City...

• Word Count: 2520
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... expresses a sense of mystery, a questioning of Gatsby's wealth; "Young men didn't- at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't- drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island South." His words show scepticism that wealth can be achieved from nothing, showing us that the American Dream is rarely achieved. Gatsby's mysterious attributes are shown to have been achieved ... through Myrtle's love of materialism. The Valley of The Ashes contains a hopeless atmosphere, a place where dreams are not able to exist. It does not reflect "I became aware of the old isla...

• Word Count: 3225
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

... 't secretly seeing each other behind other people's backs, they Weren't unfaithful to each other, and they both cared for each other. Nick saw Jordan's dishonesty as a major flaw in her personality, and He didn't think she was worth it. Out of all of the relationships, Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson's was the most the most superficial. Neither had true feelings For ... of her life. There is no doubt that many of the characters in The Great Gatsby are extremely selfish. In fact with the exception of Nick, and possibly Jordan, the personality trait of selfishness is found in every major ch...

• Word Count: 6164
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

... was a great man. Everything that he did, from the way he carried himself to the way that he spoke, pointed to the fact that he was accomplished. It was his personality that made him so distinguished. He lived in mystery and he spoke with the sophistication of a man educated at Oxford. " I knew I had discovered a man of fine breeding after I talked with ... associates spoke of him with respect. Even in death Gatsby was seen as a great man. " If he'd of lived he'd of been a great man-(176). It was not only his personality and accomplishments that made Gatsby so great, his dream also contr...

• Word Count: 2638
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... is a symbol for hope and vitality and growth. In its going out, so also was Daisy, the light that had always occupied Gatsby's life. On the drive back to Long Island to their Egg residences, Nick and Tom and Jordan who were in the same car, discovered a frightening site of someone killed on the road. A Greek man who runs the restaurant ... ...

• Word Count: 7760
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: Undergraduate