The Great Gatsby

1. Daisy's cousin moves to a town named East Egg, where he meets a man named Jay Gatsby. Garsby is a strange man who has huge lavished parties that everyone hopes to be invited to. Nick goes to visit his cousin Daisy where she lives in West Egg with her well off husband Tom, and their daughter. While visiting Nick meets an athlete, Jordan Baker, and also disvovers that Tom is cheating on Daisy with a woman named Myrtle. The next day Tom and Nick go to the Valley of Ashes and meets Myrtle at her husbands garage. They go to their apartment next and Myrtle is talking about Daisy, Tom feels that his mistress is not of class to speak of Daisy so he hits Myrtle and ends up braking her nose. Nick later goes to one of Gatsby's parties, at his parties Gatsby himself doesn't show himself. Nick runs into Jordan and they decide to try and find out what Gastby is doing instead of mingling with his guests, during their search they find out about Gatsby's love for Daisy. Nick, wanting to reunite Gatsby and Daisy invites them both to tea at him house. Tom becomes suspicious of Gatsby and invites him to New York to learn more.  While Gatsby is driving he happens to run over Myrtle. George, Myrtle's husband mistakes Gatsby with Tom, her once lover, and shoots him. Nick is the narrator of the story, the author chose him rather then Daisy or Gatsby because you were suprised by every discovery made. That Gatsby loved Daisy, that she also loved him, and that Tom was cheating on his wife. 

2. There is two themes in the novel. One is that there is always hope. Gatsby always believed that him and Daisy were meant to be together and every party he had was for her and when he finds her it is clear that she has always loved him to. The second is that ignorance is bliss. Daisy believes this enough to wish it upon her daughter hoping she will always wear a pretty face and not look into the horrible things going on in the world and this will give her a better, happier life.

3.  The tone is very ironic. Examples of this are through out the book, like how Myrtle who is of low class looks down on her husband who is of the same class. How Tom cheats on Daisy with someone of a lower class and breaks her nose for even speaking his wife's name. And how Daisy believes ignorance is bliss when some would say she is rather ignorant herself and yet not very blissful.

4.Literary Techniques:
              A) Symbolism- The green light at the end of the dock symbolizes hope for Gatsby that his love is still very much alive.
              B) Repetition- Optimism and the level of insanity when it comes to Daisy and their future together.
              C) Irony- Gatsby uses a fake identity to keep hope alive with Daisy but it is his optimism that leads to his death.
              D) Simile- Nick says, "In his blue garden men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
             E) Foreshaddowing- through out the book Fitzgerald hints at the downfall of Garsby.