Summary

At the onset of this book, the reader is introduced to the narrator, Nick Carraway, who relates the past happenings that construct the story of Jay Gatsby and Nick during the summer of 1922. After fighting in World War I, or the Great War as Nick called it, Nick left his prominent family in the West of America for the North where he intended to learn the bond business. Nick was originally supposed to share a house in West Egg near New York City with an associate of his, but the man backed out and so Nick lived with only a Finnish cook. Right next door, Gatsby lived in a glorious mansion with expansive gardens and a marble swimming pool, among other luxuries. Yet Nick did not even hear about Gatsby until he went to visit his distant family at East Egg next to West Egg.



Daisy was Nick's second cousin once removed, and Tom Buchanan was Daisy's hulking brute of a husband and classmate of Nick's from college. Jordan Baker, a prominent tennis player of the......

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Title: The Great Gatsby Book Report
Approximate Word Count: 3245
Approximate Pages: 13 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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