Friday, April 16, 2010

What are some significant events which take place in The Great Gatsby?

I have to write an essay about how the great gatsby is both glamourous and disgusting. I have to write a paragraph about 4 people, 4 places and 4 events. I am done writing about people/places but I can't think of events. So far, I am thinking of parties at Gatsby's house and Gatsby's death. What other events are there?

What are some significant events which take place in The Great Gatsby?
1. The party @ Gatsby's house when Nick Carraway met him.


2. The meeting that Nick arranged @ his house for Daisy and Gatsby to reunite.


3. The trip into New York with Tom and his mistress and the dog.


4. The lunch in New York with Nick, Gatsby and the business partner.


5. The party @ Gatsby's when Tom and Daisy came together and Daisy went off with Gatsby.


6. The Sunday when Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Nick and Jordan went into New York and there was the fight between Tom and Gatsby and Daisy and Gatsby leave together.


7. The accident when Tom's mistress was run over, Daisy was driving and she didn't even stop.


8. The confrontation with the husband of the mistress @ Tom and Daisy's where they let Gatsby take the blame for the woman's death.


9. The garage guy shoots Gatsby.


10. Nick meets Gatsby's father.


11. Gatsby's funeral.


12. Jordan and Nick say goodbye.


13. Nick meets Tom and Daisy casually months afterwards and Tom and Daisy seem untroubled by their role in all those horrible events - the death of the mistress, the death of Gatsby.





I'd do 2.,5.,make the Sunday in New York one event from the fight to Gatsby's death and end it with 13.
Reply:I haven't seen that movie since last year in my American Literature class. Umm the dude gets shot. The wife of that gas station guy gets run over by Gatsby's car. Gatsby and his girl live together/meet again. That one rich guy loses his girlfriend. Sorry, I can't remember names. Gatsby offers the main character a job to get rich quick in that bar.


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