Resumo de The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby was published by Scott Fitzgerald in 1925 to great critical acclaim. The novel is concerned with the disillusion of the era following WWI. James Gatz has risen from a miserable situation in life to one of great wealth through sinister business dealings. He masquerades as a gentleman and goes by the name of Jay Gatsby. He lives mysteriously in his mansion on Long Island where he entertains lavishly with his ill-gotten gains. His neighbour is Nick Carraway, the first person narrator of the novel. Nick meets Gatsby at one such lavish party. It is Nick?s cousin, Daisy ? the former lover of Gatsby but now married to Tom Buchanan, Nick?s friend ? who Gatsby wishes to meet again. For this he takes Nick?s help which is easily offered. Daisy?s husband Tom has a mistress Myrtle Wilson. The couple is estranged and Gatsby hopes to win Daisy?s love again. But before this happens Tom suspects Gatsby?s credentials and his intentions towards his wife. He tries to pull Gatsby down by various means. During one such effort Daisy, driving Gatsby?s car, runs over Myrtle killing her instantly. Daisy, frightened by this incident decides to stay with her husband while Gatsby is suspected by Tom for this accident. Wilson, the garage man husband of Myrtle traces the yellow car, which killed his wife, to Gatsby. Wilson shoots Gatsby and then shoots himself. The great Gatsby?s funeral is attended by his one friend ? the narrator Nick, Gatsby?s aged father, and a curiosity seeker.

The story unfolds itself in nine chapters. There are three fibres that run through the narration. One, Gatsby?s attempt to recapture the love of Daisy Buchanan whom he had known five years before the action of the novel begins, when he was a young officer in the United States army and Daisy was a young unmarried woman, the daughter of a rich family. The second strand concerns her husband Tom Buchanan?s extra-marital affair with the wife of a garage proprietor, who lives in an unattractive suburb of New York. Third fibre runs from Nick Carraway, the narrator?s, attachment to Jordan Baker, one of Daisy?s friends who is a sportswoman of some reputation.

The main themes of the novel are that of betrayal and ingratitude. The worst of human nature is shown by Fitzgerald when no one turns up for Gatsby?s funeral, though hundreds had eaten at his place. It is a sad comment on human nature that when a man dies, he dies alone, absolutely alone. The only things that accompany him are his good deeds especially those done spontaneously and without expectations.

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