The Great Gatsby #2

This week, I was able to reread the majority of The Great Gatsby ,by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and better analyze the full plot of the book. As stated last week, I had read a portion of The Great Gatsby but was unable to really grasp a plot due to the awkward dialogue no being clear on who was saying what. Now that I have reread a majority of the book, I can give you at least a partial recount of what is happening.

    My rereading of the book has also helped me find out what basic genre the book is: romance. Yes, of all the ways this book could have branched off, it had to be romance (and I had to be the unlucky guy to pick it up thinking it was going to be a psychological mystery). Anyway, the basic rundown is this: Nick, the main character and objective protagonist the book is told by, moves to New York to start a stock-broker business. He also ends up buying a house on Long Island near his cousin, Daisy. Daisy is married to her husband, Tom Buchanan. However, as Nick soon finds, they have quite a rocky marriage (as Tom often leaves the house alone to have an affair with a downtown mechanics wife). At one point, Jordan Baker, one of Daisy’s friends, mentions to Nick that he lives next door to a man who’s name is Jay Gatsby, an eccentric millionaire. Gatsby then personally invites Nick to one of his parties and meets him for the first time. A few days later, when Gatsby and Nick are having lunch, Gatsby mentions something about Daisy, to which Nick replies that she’s his cousin. Gatsby then shows that he has affections for her and wishes for her and him to meet at Nick’s place for tea so Gatsby can get better acquainted with Daisy. That is a basic summary of the story so far. In all, the book so far seems to be about how a couple wishes to be with other people but, for unexplained reasons, can’t divorce each other. I have a feeling this could get very dramatic very quickly the further I read.