Book Review # 4

Eyah Ncho
January 11, 2011
English I
Mr. Williams
Book Review #4
Due: January 11, 2011

Dear Potential Readers,
The book “The Great Gatsby” is a book that is very sad, boring, funny, and entertaining. But overall this was a good book. I would read it again in the future. The book is about a young man named Nick Carraway, in the summer of 1922. He is from Minnesota who moves to West Egg to rent a house for his work in bond business in New York. He lacks of communication with his neighbors. Nick and Tom graduated from Yale University and Nick has many connections with people in the East Egg. One day Nick went to his cousin Daisy’s and her husband Tom Buchanan’s house to see them. When he went in the porch, he saw Daisy sitting on the couch with her good friend Jordan Baker, who is a competitive golfer. As Nick, Tom, Daisy, and Jordan were talking Tom goes and excuses himself to get the phone call. Daisy follows him and while Nick and Jordan are sitting in the porch, Jordan talks to Nick and she said that the phone call was Tom’s lover that lives in New York. Soon later when everyone leaves Tom and Daisy talk about how Nick should take interest in Jordan. When Nick arrives home, he sees Gatsby for the first time. Gatsby was a handsome young man; he had his arms reaching out toward the ocean.
Halfway between West Egg and New York there is a place called Valley of Ashes where all of New York’s ashes are dumped and it is spread in an unorderly matter. There is a billboard in the Valley of Ashes. On it has two big rimmed eyes; it was eyes from a long vanished eye doctor, it was the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, who watches everything that happens in the Valley of Ashes. There is a train that runs between West Egg and New York that passes through the valley. Tom forces Nick on the train to stop at an unfamiliar stop. Tom leads Nick to Wilson’s garage that sit right near the valley of ashes. Myrtle is Wilson’s wife but that is Tom’s lover. Tom leads Nick and Myrtle to the train and takes them to New York where Myrtle’s sister, Catherine and a couple named McKee was having a party. On the way there Myrtle stops to get a puppy that Tom buys for Myrtle as a gift. At the party Catherine imparts Nick that Jay Gatsby is the cousin or the nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm who was the ruler of Germany during World War I. Myrtle drinks, she got drunk and gets drunker. She keeps drinking and then becomes very loud and louder until Tom was fed up with it. Myrtle talks about Tom’s wife Daisy and Tom warns her never to mention his wife but she insist to. Tom broke her nose.
Gatsby became a famous person around New York because he throws gigantic parties every weekend at his mansion. One day Gatsby’s servant brings an invitation to Nick to one of Gatsby’s parties. Nick attends to the party and feels like he doesn’t belongs there with strangers everywhere. He later on spotted Jordan Baker and started walking and talking to her. The guests go around and tell rumors about their host but no one seems to know the real truth about Gatsby. Nick heard people saying that Gatsby killed a person in cold blood, he graduated from Oxford, and was a spy in during the war. One of Gatsby’s servants called for Nick and they went inside, upstairs and Nick meets Jay Gatsby. Gatsby introduced himself to Nick. Nick says bye to Gatsby and they plan to have another time to hang out. While Nick left, the servants went and got Jordan. Gatsby wanted to see Jordan.
The next day as Gatsby and Nick goes into the city to eat lunch, Gatsby tells Nick about his past. Gatsby’s said that he was one of the son of wealthy, deceased parents from the Midwest. He also said that he was educated at Oxford. Gatsby introduced Nick to Meyer Wolfshiem, who was responsible for the 1919 World Series. After lunch Nick goes to see Jordan, who finally tells Nick what happened at the party between her and Gatsby. Jordan tells Nick that before Daisy got married to Tom , during the war, every military officers were in love with her, in the Louisville. Daisy fell in love with Lieutenant Jay Gatsby but they were suppose to get married after he came back to war but she married Tom. Gatsby bought his mansion in West Egg to be near Daisy. Jordan also said that Nick had to make a reunion at his house. He didn’t want to do it by himself because he thought that Daisy might refuse to see him.
Gatsby was nervous to see Daisy. Gatsby gets someone to cut Nick’s grass and sends another man to send flowers there. Gatsby was worrying that it won’t be the same with him and Daisy. When Daisy arrives, Nick sees that Gatsby had disappeared suddenly. Gatsby enters the house from walking around the house in the rain. The reunion was awkward at first but then Gatsby was really nervous and accidently knocked Nick’s clock down. Gatsby apologize and that was a mistake that he dropped it. Nick leaves them alone for a hour and a half and when he came back he saw that both of them where extremely happy. Daisy was shedding tears and Gatsby was glowing. Gatsby invites Nick and Daisy to go over his house and he impressed Daisy with his possessions. When he showed her the collection of English shirts Daisy began to cry. Klipspringer plays the piano for Daisy and Gatsby and Nick thought that they had forgotten him, so he got up and left.
Reporters travelled to Gatsby’s mansion hoping to interview him about the rumors that is circulating ion New York. Gatsby was born in North Dakota farm with the name James Gatz. He attended to college at St. Olaf’s but he didn’t dropped after two weeks because he was humiliated by his janitor work for paying his tuition. He worked on Lake Superior in the next summer catching fishing fish. He saw a yacht owned by Dan Cody. Cody took Gatz in and made him his personal assistant and he also changed his name. When Cody died, he left Gatsby twenty-five thousand. Gatsby became a successful man. Daisy was spending a lot of time with Gatsby and Tom was becoming a little jealous. Gatsby and Daisy were coming back from somewhere and Daisy was on the driver side and Gatsby was on the passenger side and Myrtle was on the road and Daisy ran over her using Gatsby’s car. A few days later, Tom told Mr. Wilson that Gatsby killed him since it was his car. Mr. Wilson went to Gatsby’s house and Gatsby was on the bed float in the swimming pool. Gatsby was floating dead in his pool. Nick found Gatsby dead. Mr. Wilson came and shot him from behind then he took his own life. Nobody came to Gatsby’s funeral except for some servants, Nick and Gatsby’s father. Daisy stayed with Tom and they moved to New York. Nick stopped his relationship with Jordan and moved back to Minnesota. I will give this book a four.