NAME: DEWI PERONIKA SILITONGA

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TASK: ANALYSIS NOVEL GREAT GATSBY
LECTURER: Dr. ISNAWATI LYDIA WANTASEN SS, M.Hum

Title: The Great Gatsby

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

The main character: Jay Gatsby

Time & Place (Settings): New York City and Long Island At: West Egg and East Egg

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons

Publication Date: April 10, 1925

Point of View: First and Third Person

Characters in the novel:

Nick Carraway: A Midwesterner, who sells bonds. Narrator. He observed and described the rise and
fall of Jay Gatsby.

Daisy Buchanan: Rich. Nick Carraway's cousin. Tom Buchanan's wife.

Tom Buchanan: Rich. Philanderer. Daisy Buchanan's husband. Strong personality.

Jay Gatsby: A self-made man. American Dream emblem. A very unforgettable figure in American
literature. His parents were poor farmers. Having tasted wealth, he went into the Army, attended Oxford
and amassed a fortune through nefarious means. With an extraordinary rise to great wealth, it is
extraordinary to fall.

Jordan Baker: Daisy's friend.

George Wilson: Myrtle Wilson's husband.

Myrtle Wilson: Mrs. Tom Buchanan. George Wilson's wife.

Meyer Wolfsheim: A criminal figure in the underworld. Meet Jay Gatsby.

Resume:
This novel tells about a man named Jay Gatsby who is deep in love. this story begins with Gatsby's
request, Nick agrees to invite Daisy to his house where Gatsby can meet her. A few days later he has them
both over for tea, and Daisy is astonished to see Gatsby after nearly five years. The meeting is at first
uncomfortable, and Nick steps outside for half an hour to give the two of them privacy. When he returns,
they seem fully reconciled, Gatsby glowing with happiness and Daisy in tears. Afterward they go next
door to Gatsby’s enormous house, and Gatsby shows off its impressive rooms to Daisy.

As the days pass, Tom becomes aware of Daisy’s association with Gatsby. Disliking it, he shows up at
one of Gatsby’s parties with his wife. It becomes clear that Daisy does not like the party and is appalled
by the impropriety of the new-money crowd at West Egg. Tom suspects that Gatsby is a bootlegger, and
he says so. Voicing his dismay to Nick after the party is over, Gatsby explains that he wants Daisy to tell
Tom she never loved him and then marry him as though the years had never passed.

Gatsby’s wild parties cease thereafter, and Daisy goes over to Gatsby’s house in the afternoons. On a
boiling hot day near the end of the summer, Nick arrives for lunch at the Buchanans’ house; Gatsby and
Jordan have also been invited. In the dining room, Daisy pays Gatsby a compliment that makes clear her
love for him, and, when Tom notices this, he insists they drive into town. Daisy and Gatsby leave in
Tom’s blue coupe, while Tom drives Jordan and Nick in Gatsby’s garish yellow car. On the way, Tom
stops for gas at George Wilson’s garage in the valley of ashes, and Wilson tells Tom that he is planning to
move west with Myrtle as soon as he can raise the money. This news shakes Tom considerably, and he
speeds on toward Manhattan, catching up with Daisy and Gatsby.

The whole party ends up in a parlour at the Plaza Hotel, hot and in bad temper. As they are about to drink
mint juleps to cool off, Tom confronts Gatsby directly on the subject of his relationship with Daisy. Daisy
tries to calm them down, but Gatsby insists that Daisy and he have always been in love and that she has
never loved Tom. As the fight escalates and Daisy threatens to leave her husband, Tom reveals what he
learned from an investigation into Gatsby’s affairs—that he had earned his money by selling illegal
alcohol at drugstores in Chicago with Wolfsheim after Prohibition laws went into effect. Gatsby tries to
deny it, but Daisy has lost her resolve, and his cause seems hopeless. As they leave the Plaza, Nick
realizes that it is his 30th birthday.

Gatsby and Daisy leave together in Gatsby’s car, with Daisy driving. On the road they hit and kill Myrtle,
who, after having a vehement argument with her husband, had run into the street toward Gatsby’s passing
car thinking it was Tom. Terrified, Daisy continues driving, but the car is seen by witnesses. Coming
behind them, Tom stops his car when he sees a commotion on the road. He is stunned and devastated
when he finds the body of his mistress dead on a table in Wilson’s garage. Wilson accusingly tells him it
was a yellow car that hit her, but Tom insists it was not his and drives on to East Egg in tears. Back at the
Buchanans’ house in East Egg, Nick finds Gatsby hiding in the garden and learns that it was Daisy who
was driving, though Gatsby insists that he will say it was him if his car is found. He says he will wait
outside Daisy’s house in case Tom abuses Daisy.

The next morning Nick goes over to Gatsby’s house, where he has returned, dejected. Nick advises him to
go away, afraid that his car will be traced. He refuses, and that night he tells Nick the truth about his past:
he had come from a poor farming family and had met Daisy in Louisville while serving in the army, but
he was too poor to marry her at the time. He earned his incredible wealth only after the war
(by bootlegging, as Tom discovered).

Reluctantly, Nick leaves for work, while Gatsby continues to wait for a call from Daisy. That afternoon,
George Wilson arrives in East Egg, where Tom tells him that it was Gatsby who killed his wife. Wilson
makes his way to Gatsby’s house, where he finds Gatsby in his pool. Wilson shoots Gatsby and then
himself. Afterward the Buchanans leave Long Island. They give no forwarding address. Nick arranges
Gatsby’s funeral, although only two people attend, one of whom is Gatsby’s father. Nick moves back to
the Midwest, disgusted with life in the East.
Conflict in the novel:
The main conflict is about love, namely two men (Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan) fighting over the love
and affection of a woman named Daisy who is married to Tom Buchanan. Gatsby wants to get Daisy back
and wants to marry her but Daisy doesn't want to because of Gatsby's past.

2nd conflict: Tom provoked Gatsby to get angry by bringing up his past and also saying that Gatby was
not a good person. This made Gatsby furious at Tom and wanted to fight, Daisy who saw that became
frightened.

3rd conflict: Gatsby is accused of crashing a mirror to death, but it's actually Daisy who did it.

Comparison between the novel and the film (Great Gatsby): that is, in the first part of
the novel, the writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells a little about his life, as he comes from a wealthy family and
attends Heaven University, etc.
Meanwhile, in the film, Gatsby, who comes from a rural area and comes from a poor family, is first told.

Reference the novel:

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Reference the film: https://moviecrackle.com/movie/tt1343092