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The Great Gatsby is a story about the impossibility of recapturing the past and also the difficulty of altering one’s future. The protagonist of the novel is Jay Gatsby, who is the mysterious and wealthy neighbor of the narrator, Nick Carraway.
On the surface, The Great Gatsby is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope.
Although the main events of the novel end with Gatsby’s murder and George’s suicide, The Great Gatsby concludes with a chapter in which Nick reflects on the aftermath of Gatsby’s death. This final chapter furnishes Nick with more information about the mysterious Gatsby and his struggle to climb the social ladder.
Like Gatsby, Nick says, all people must move forward with their arms outstretched toward the future, like boats traveling upstream against the current of the past. Get all the key plot points of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.
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Summary; Chapter Summaries Chapter Summaries Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Themes Themes The Jazz Age; The American Dream; Class in America; Time, the Past, and the Future; Characters Characters Jay Gatsby; Nick Carraway; Daisy Buchanan; Jordan Baker; Tom Buchanan; Myrtle ...
