City Lights & Church Steeples

City Lights & Church Steeples

             The Great Gatsby was a short, potent tale full of excitement and passion. Throughout the novel, we follow the eyes of Nick Carroway, an upper class man trying to make his own money in New York buying and selling bonds. A while after he arrives, he is asked to come over to his cousin Daisy’s house on East Egg, a rich neighborhood full of people considered “old money”. Carroway leaves his house in West Egg, a similarly rich neighborhood full of people considered “nouveau riche”, and goes to Daisy’s. He meets both Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan, as well as a Miss Jordan Baker, a golf superstar. The two of them hit it off, and eventually enter into a relationship together. Meanwhile, Nick is invited to a small party with Tom, featuring his mistress. Myrtle Wilson, Tom’s mistress, is everything Daisy isn’t – however, Tom doesn’t seem to mind. During the party, things get out of hand between Tom and Myrtle, and Tom ends up hitting Myrtle and breaking her nose. After that fracas, Nick returns home. A while later, he is invited by a butler to a party at his neighbor, Gatsby’s, house. At the party, he meets Gatsby – a model gentleman. Gatsby asks Nick through Jordan to invite Daisy over for lunch, and Nick obliges. Gatsby comes over as well, and Nick leaves to let them speak for a while. This sort of affair continues on for a while, until Gatsby and Nick go to the Buchanan’s house one summer day. Gatsby and Tom become enthralled in an argument, Daisy sitting to one side helpless, and Jordan and Nick simply watching. They decide to drive to town, and then the argument continues. After the finishing of the argument, Daisy and Gatsby drive home in Gatsby’s car – unfortunately, Myrtle Wilson suddenly appears and is run down. George, her husband, goes crazy, and eventually goes to Gatsby’s house, kills Gatsby, and then kills himself.