The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald This story follows Nick Carraway, a young man from the Midwest living on Long Island surrounded by the idle rich. Nick lives next to a millionaire named Jay Gatsby who hosts lavish parties at his mansion. Gatsby invites Nick to one of them and the two become friends, even though Nick despises Gatsby's life and pretty much everything he stands for. Across the water lives Nick's second cousin Daisy with her husband Tom Buchanan, the two of them also quite wealthy. Nick discovers that Gatsby and Daisy have known one another and are in love. The majority of the story is concerned with the carefree lives of these wealthy people and Nick's understanding that they are ultimately selfish people who do not take responsibility for their own actions, allowing others ot clean up after them or deal with the fallout from their mistakes. This is evident when a tragic accident occurs and the blame is left on Gatsby who was not responsible for it, y...