Scott Fitzgerald. As soon as he turns thirty, he has a revelation. The reflections he states after allude in general to the American society and to the failed American dream. Fitzgerald, F. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, Scott Fitzgerald section. Get Full Access Now or Learn more.
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In , during his training to join the infantry in preparation to for the Great War World War I , year-old Gatsby falls in love with year-old Daisy Fay, who is everything he's not: rich and from an elite, upper class Louisville, Kentucky family. During the war, Gatsby reaches the rank of Major, which commands the heavy machine guns of his regiment, and is decorated for valor for his participation in the Marne and the Argonne.
After the war ends, he attends Trinity College in Oxford, England. While there, he receives a letter from Daisy, telling him that she is to marry the equally aristocratic Tom Buchanan. Gatsby sends her a letter, the content of which are not known to the reader.
However, it comes the day prior to her wedding and causes her to rethink her impending marriage to Tom. Gatsby then commits his life to becoming a man of wealth and stature that he believes could win Daisy's love back. Gatsby returns home to the US where it's being transformed by Prohibition, a period in American history when gangsters are able to earn vast wealth and sometimes mix with the connected upper classes. Gatsby takes advantage of this opportunity by making a fortune from bootlegging, thanks to his association with various gangsters, such as Meyer Wolfsheim who is, as Gatsby later tells Nick, "the man who fixed the World's Series back in With his vast income readily available, Gatsby purchases a bedroom mansion in West Egg of Long Island, home to the nouveau riche, on the opposite side of a lake from the old-money East Egg, where Daisy Buchanan, her husband Tom, and their three-year-old daughter, Pammy live.
At his West Egg mansion, Gatsby hosts weekend-long parties every week, open to all comers, in an attempt to attract Daisy as one of party guests from East Egg.
Through Nick Carraway , Gatsby finally has a chance to meet Daisy. Now reunited, Gatsby increasingly tries to convince Daisy to leave her adulterous husband Tom and to return to Louisville, where they will marry and turn back the hands of time to the first time they met, five years before. The time has come for Daisy to make the decision on whether she will leave Tom and start a new life with Gatsby.
At the Buchanans' home, the pressure is mounting and Gatsby expects her to tell Tom she is leaving him. Tom asks Gatsby if he can drive his yellow Rolls Royce to the city.
Gatsby agrees. Garage owner George Wilson shares a concern that his wife, Myrtle , may be having an affair, but he doesn't know with whom and in response to learning of this affair, George has decided to take his wife west. This unnerves Tom as Myrtle is his secret mistress and he leaves in a hurry. During the gathering in a Plaza Hotel suite, a casual conversation devolves into a confrontation between Daisy, Gatsby, and Tom.
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