Inhaltsangabe von The Great Gatsby
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The novel "The Great Gatsby" by F.Scott Fitzgerald is about critism of the american dream and the society in the 20's. The novel is set on Long Island, in the fictional West Egg and East Egg Villages, based on, respectively, Great Neck, New York and Port Washington, New York.
Jay Gatsby, the title character, is a young millionaire living in West Egg with a mysterious past. He made his richness through bootlegging and other corrupt dealings such as distributing illegal alcohol and trading stolen stocks. Rumors circulate of him "killing a man", or being a German spy during the Great War and the possibility of him being a cousin of the German ruler Kaiser Wilhelm. He is famous for throwing big parties attended by high society, with their non-invited people whom he tolerates. Even of having this big parties in his house and got all the attention of the people there, Gatsby has no friends and is infact a lonely man. All he really wants is to "repeat the past" to come together again with the love of his life, Daisy. It is revealed that Daisy is the primary reason he wanted to be rich, the other reason is that he wanted to escape from the life of his father, a farmer. But Daisy is now Daisy Buchanan, married to the relatively respectable millionaire Tom Buchanan. Tom and Daisy have a child together. It is very hard for Gatsby to see Daisy as a wife and a mother. Daisy, feeling trapped and bored in her marriage with the unfaithful Tom. She is pleased by the return of Gatsby's attention.
The narrator of the novel is Nick Carraway, an 29 years old Wall Street trader in the rising financial markets of the early 1920s. Nick is also Daisy's cousin. Nick has moved into a small house next to the big mansion of millionaire Gatsby. Nick cynically realizes that the rich, as respectable as they may seem, are "careless people", and Tom and Daisy are no exclusion. Tom has a lover called Myrtle Wilson, the wife of the gas station owner in the wasteland of ashes around present day Flushing, Queens, New York, between the fabulous mansions on Long Island and New York City. Nick meets Gatsby and soon they become friends, also Nick becomes Gatsby's contact to Daisy. One afternoon, after a confrontation between Tom and Gatsby over Daisy, Daisy runs over Myrtle with Gatsby's Car, while driving back from a tour with Nick, Tom and Gatsby. Tom lies to Myrtle's heartbroken husband George, telling him that the accident was Gatsby's fault. Lead by anger and rage Willson shot Gatsby and commits suicide after his exploit. Hardly anyone, not even Daisy, goes to Gatsby's funeral, and Nick, Gatsby's only remaining friend, attends it with Gatsby's father, a poor farmer. Only one guest shows up, one of Gatsby's previous party-goers, the owl-eyed man, who was impressed by Gatsby's library. Gatsby is buried with the same mystery in which he suddenly appeared.
