Varianta I.

B.1. Nick Carraway moves to New York to learn the bond business. He rents a house on Long
Island, and his next-door neighbor is a mysterious man named Jay Gatsby, who lives in a large
Gothic mansion and throws extravagant parties. Nick’s cousin Daisy and her husband also live on
Long Island. Nick learns that Gatsby knew Daisy before, and is deeply in love with her. Gatsby
and Daisy begin an affair. One evening while Daisy is driving Gatsby’s car, it strikes and kills
Tom’s lover Myrtle Wilson, but Gatsby takes the blame. When Tom tells Myrtle’s husband,
George, that Gatsby was the driver of the car; he then finds Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and
shoots him dead. Nick stages a small funeral for Gatsby. He reflects that just as Gatsby’s dream of
Daisy was corrupted by money and dishonesty, the American dream of happiness and
individualism has disintegrated into the mere pursuit of wealth.

B.2. The ending of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby hammers home the
novel's dominant motif that people constantly strive for dreams that no longer exist. This passage
makes use of the color green, or the "green breasts of the new world," which is a color that appears
throughout the novel. In this view, “this continent” refers to love, or possibly to the unknown, to
something you can’t describe or grasp because you can’t fully understand it: hat was what Gatsby
was feeling when he first encountered Daisy.

B.3. The phrase the “party was over” refers to the end of the illusion that was the Gatsby character,
and more broadly, the illusion of the American Dream. This represents the idea of the American
Dream, where qualities of hard work and ambition are shown. In The Great Gatsby, the American
dream not only causes corruption but has caused destruction. Myrtle, Gatsby and Daisy have all
been corrupted and destroyed by the dream. Through Gatsby's life, as well as that of the Wilsons',
Fitzgerald critiques the idea that America is a meritocracy where anyone can rise to the top with
enough hard work.