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JAY GATSBY

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-Gatsby glaubte an das grüne Licht, an die wundervolle Zukunft, die Jahr für Jahr vor uns zurückweicht. Damals entwischte sie uns, aber was machte das schon? Morgen laufen wir schneller, strecken die Arme weiter aus und einen schönen Tages, so kämpfen wir weiter, wie Boote gegen den Strom.und unablässig treibt es uns zurück in die Vergangenheit.18/17 pt

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THE GREAT GATSBY

Fitzgerald frames his plot as a story within a story, as the narrator, Nick Carraway, relates his version of Jay Gatsby‘s life. Nick, seeking freedom from his constricted Midwestern existence, takes a job in New York City and rents a bungalow in West Egg, Long Island, next door to the lavish mansion of the mysterious Jay Gatsby. Nick‘s wealthy cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband Tom, invite Nick to dinner with the attractive but flighty Jordan Baker at their luxurious home on the neighboring island of East Egg. Unsettled by the Buchanans‘ seemingly purposeless lives, Nick returns home and notices his neighbor Gatsby staring longingly at a green light across the bay coming from the Buchanans‘ property. Tom later persuades Nick to accompany him to a place he calls the Valley of Ashes and introduces him to his blowsy mistress, Myrtle Wilson. Tom, Myrtle, and Nick end up at an apartment in New York, where a wild party ensues, and in a violent outburst, Tom strikes Myrtle and breaks her nose. Later in the month, Gatsby sends Nick an invitation to come to a sumptuous party at his estate, where Nick meets his neighbor for the first time. This is the first of many parties Nick attends at the Gatsby mansion in the company of many of the rich and famous. When Gatsby later takes Nick to New York 12/14,5 pt for lunch, he regales him with tales of his war medals and education.

The other guest at lunch is the notorious gangster Meyer Wolfsheim, who reportedly fixed the World Series in 1918. Nick, befuddled by Gatsby‘s questionable associations, is also taken aback when Jordan asks him on Gatsby‘s behalf to invite Daisy to lunch at Nick‘s bungalow. He does so even though he now knows that Daisy and Gatsby were in love prior to her marriage to Tom. The two ill-fated lovers meet, and Gatsby takes Daisy to his mansion and invites her to his next party. Daisy agrees, but when she disapproves of some of his guests, Gatsby stops entertaining altogether. He eventually tells Nick of his truly humble Midwest origins, noting that his name is really Gatz, that he did not graduate from Oxford, and that he has made his fortune in bootlegging and other nefarious ventures. One day Gatsby, the Buchanans, Jordan, and Nick drive to New York. On the way, they stop at the garage of George Wilson, husband of Myrtle, who tries to get money from Tom and announces that he and 8/9,5 pt Myrtle are leaving town.

At a hotel in New York, Tom accuses Gatsby of trying to steal his wife, and a fierce argument ensues. Daisy heads home with Gatsby, and shortly thereafter Tom and Jordan stop at Wilson‘s garage to find that Myrtle has been killed by a hit-andrun driver of a yellow car. Tom blames the death on Gatsby though the real driver at the time was Daisy, whom Gatsby seeks to protect. George Wilson, thinking Gatsby was the driver, goes to Gatsby‘s estate, shoots him, and then kills himself. Only Gatsby‘s father, who thinks his son was a great man, attends his funeral. Nick later learns that Tom had a part in Gatsby‘s death, having convinced Wilson that Myrtle and Gatsby were lovers. Disillusioned with the Buchanans and their ilk, Nick decides to return to the Midwest. Echoes of the American Dream pervade the novel, which contrasts the supposed innocence and moral sense of the Western characters with the sophistication and materialism of the Eastern characters.Gatsby‘s lavish existence in the nouveau riche Long Island.