“If you measure your personality with its ability to prove itself, then in Gatsby there was something truly magnificent, some kind of heightened sensitivity to all the promises of life ... It was a rare gift of hope, a romantic fuse, which I have never seen in anyone else.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, a novel by American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald, was released on April 10, 1925, and is a typical representative of the so-called "Age of Jazz" in American literature. The novel was completed and published by Fitzgerald in Paris, where he lived at that time during his trip to Europe.
The novel takes place in New York, on Long Island, in the twenties of the XX century. Following the chaos of World War I, in the “roaring 20th”, American society entered an unprecedented strip of prosperity.
At the same time, the “dry law” made many bootleggers (clandestine alcohol dealers) millionaires and gave a significant impetus to the development of organized crime. While admiring the rich and their charm, Fitzgerald at the same time condemns the unlimited materialism and lack of morality of America at that time.
Although The Great Gatsby was staged on Broadway and filmed in Hollywood shortly after release, the novel did not become particularly famous during the lifetime of the author - less than 24,000 copies of the book were sold. During the Great Depression and World War II, he was forgotten, and appeared again only in the fifties, when he had already gained popularity.
In the following decades, the novel became compulsory for reading in high schools and in university courses in literature in many English-speaking countries of the world. In 1998, the novel was ranked No. 2 on the list of 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century according to the version of Modern Library.
A little bit about the novel.
First-person narrator - Nick Carraway begins his narrative with the advice that his wealthy father once gave him: “In my youth, when a person was especially receptive, I somehow received advice from my father that sank into my memory for a long time.
If you suddenly want to condemn someone, - he said, - remember that not all people in the world have the advantages that you possessed.
He did not add anything to this, but he and I always understood each other very well without unnecessary words, and it was clear to me that he thought much more than he said. This is where the habit of restraint in judgment came from - a habit that often served me as the key to the most difficult natures and even more often made me a victim of seasoned annoying people. ”
Following this advice Nick got into the habit, with the exception of the case of Gatsby. Briefly, this was the case. Nick begins his story by recalling how he rented a house in Long Island, where noble but no less rich people lived. Nick visits the magnificent mansion of Tom and Daisy (second cousin) Buchanan. He soon learns that her sister’s husband is a lover in New York.
Nick’s closest neighbor was Jay Gatsby, a very wealthy man known for hosting gorgeous fun parties in his gigantic mansion, which was attended by hundreds of people every Saturday. Soon, the driver Gatsby brought Nick a formal invitation to one of these parties.
Gatsby was a mysterious man, about the size and source of huge wealth of which there were many rumors. None of the guests Nick met knew anything about his past. During the party, a man recognized Nick, as he served with him in the Third Division of the US Army during the First World War.
Nick confirmed his military service and wondered where to find Mr. Gatsby. It turned out that Nick's interlocutor is Mr. Gatsby. Soon, friendship began between the men.
Nick was very surprised when Jay brought him to New York and, without explaining the reasons for his act, told him the story of his ascent on the social ladder, which seemed invented. A friend of Nick Jordan Baker told him that Gatsby was having these parties in the hope that Daisy, his ex-girlfriend, would accidentally drop by his side.
Through Jordan, Gatsby asks Nick to arrange a meeting with Daisy. Nick promises to do this, and the reunion of the lovers took place. At the beginning, the situation was awkward, but then everything went according to plan. At the same time, an affair begins between Nick and Jordan.
Soon during the over-emotional scene at the Plaza Hotel, Tom (Daisy's husband) finds out about Jay's love for his wife, and accuses him of being a bootlegger. Tom threatens Gatsby. In response, Jay insists that Daisy say that she never loved Tom, hoping to restore love, broken five years ago.
Daisy, though hesitantly, refuses to say so. Tom feels the victory. He decides that Daisy and Gatsby will go back together, and he, Nick and Jordan will leave in another car.
Daisy, sitting at the wheel of a Gatsby car, knocks down her husband’s mistress - Myrtle and a couple are carried away. Riding behind, Jordan, Nick and Tom, notice the deceased. Tom realizes that his mistress is dead. Wilson, the husband of the deceased, deciding that the driver of the car was the one Myrtle met with, decides to find this yellow car.
But Wilson kills Gatsby in his pool and then commits suicide. Nick calls Gatsby's acquaintances, but none of them comes on a farewell visit. Nick finds Gatsby's father. In addition to their two and servants, only a person who looks like an eagle owl, whom Nick met once in the Gatsby library, is present at the funeral. After a breakdown in relations with Jordan and a small skirmish with Tom, Nick leaves New York, reflecting on the possibility of returning the past.
End of the novel:
“And among the gloomy thoughts about the fate of the old unknown world, I thought about Gatsby, about the admiration with which he first saw the green light on the pier, where Daisy lived. The dog was the path that led him to these velvety lawns, and he probably thought that now that his dream is so close, he should lend a hand and he will catch it. He did not know that she was forever behind, somewhere in the dark distances beyond this city, where the boundless lands of America lay under the night sky.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the light of an incredible future of happiness that pushes back every year. Let it slip away today, it doesn’t matter - tomorrow we will run even faster, we will stretch our hands even further ... And one fine morning ...
So we are trying to sail forward, struggling with the current, and it blows everything and takes our little ships back to the past. ”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
About The Great Gatsby
Many viewers were eagerly awaiting the release of Baz Lurman's The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Initially, the world premiere was planned for December 25, 2012, but it was announced that the release would be postponed to the summer of 2013. On the official website of the picture, the premiere date is May 10, 2013. The film was released on our screens on May 16. The advantage of the film is the fact that the script is close to the novel.
New York, 1920s Life is changing rapidly, almost at lightning speed. The pace of the city is accelerating. Discoveries are made, and bright events become high-profile facts. Houses are being built higher, and people are already more liberated.
Great parties are held, alcohol pours the river. This is the heyday of great fun! There must be a new hero in this world. They become the handsome and rich Mr. Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) - a troublemaker and conqueror of hearts.
“The Great Gatsby” is the brightest, stylish, bewitching drama created by director Baz Lurman, familiar from the films “Moulin Rouge”, “Australia”, “Dancing Without Rules”.
The story of The Great Gatsby is told on behalf of the talented writer Nick Carraway (Toby Maguire), who came to New York from the Midwest in early 1922.
Nick gets into the metropolis at a time when morality is rapidly decaying, beautiful jazz sounds on the streets, and the “smuggling kings” are the main people in the city. This is a special era, unlike any other decade in US history.
Nick wants to realize his "American dream", so he settles not far from the famous millionaire Jay Gatsby. Carraway is already involved in the world of wealth and luxury, illusions and dirty deception, love and betrayal. He is a witness to the ongoing decay of morality, but one that attracts the desires of society.
As a result, Nick will write a story that will conquer us with his mood. An amazing picture awaits you, certainly one of the best in recent times.
How was the movie made?
In 2004, director Baz Lurman traveled along the Trans-Siberian Railway.
“I just finished work on Moulin Rouge and went on vacation,” says the director. “I had a crazy idea to drive from Beijing to the north of Russia and only then to Paris.”
Driving through the snowy Russian outback, Lurman listened to audio books. One of them was The Great Gatsby.
“I poured wine, stared at the Russian landscapes flying through the window, and began to listen. He fell asleep only at four in the morning. The next day, I looked forward to the evening to drink a second bottle of wine and listen to the book to the end. I understood three things: firstly, I hadn’t understood her at all before; secondly, its structure is very concise; thirdly, you can make a great movie on it. Of course, there are pitfalls, such as Nick’s inner voice, however, this is an incredibly cinematic book. And I thought I wanted to make a movie on it. ”
So in Siberian open spaces under the sound of wheels the film of the opening of the 66th Cannes Film Festival was born.
DiCaprio read Gatsby in his youth.
“I remember how Gatsby hit me. This character really touched me. Later, I stopped seeing a love story in a book. She turned into the tragedy of a new American, a man in a new world where everything is possible. He tried to become a great Rockefeller, a great American, but at some point he ceased to understand who he really was. ”
And from the director’s interview: “After the premiere, a woman came up to me and said:
“I came from Vermont to see what you did to my grandfather’s book.” And then I froze. She added: “I think Scott would be proud of this film.” This is the best compliment to my work. ”
Opinions regarding the “Great Gatsby” are polar. And equally. All in one, the book is sustained. All the main things that needed to be said, Lurman managed to express.
From reviews from our viewers:
The film turned out to be bright, colorful, rich, brilliant and insanely beautiful. The whole era presented by the director Baz Lurman absorbs and captures you, you plunge into this world that looks too perfect to be reality. Everything is so gorgeous: outfits, mansions, cars, and even people, who, perforce, want to be among them and feel all this on yourself.
The music used for the cinema is very original, despite the fact that it seems to be more of our time, all soundtracks interpreted as jazz were generally suited to the retro style. They were perfectly matched to every situation or event.
Leonardo DiCaprio is not just the great Gatsby, he is a great actor! Each of his films is a masterpiece! He is 100% given to the role that he plays and I would even say that he does not play, but lives the life of his hero. All emotions, all feelings and behavior - all this is so perfect and real.
In this film, Leo appeared before the viewer in the image of a man who, on the one hand, is very complex and mysterious, but on the other hand is very simple and open. He, like everyone wants happiness and prosperity, so he is trying to achieve this in every way. Bravo, in a word!
I would also like to say about the game of Leonardo DiCaprio. In my opinion, it’s simply impossible to select the candidacy of Jay Gatsby - this charming, charming and simply pleasant man in all respects is ideally suited for the role. His charisma captivates, a sincere kind smile attracts the eye and falls in love with him without a doubt all those around him. It is very interesting and joyful to watch how DiCaprio turns from a passionate, handsome youth from an unforgettable “Titanic” into a talented serious dramatic actor.
I think that the Great Gatsby can be recommended for viewing to a wide range of viewers. The film is bright, rich and gives a pleasant sensation, prompts reflection and fascinates. This is a very beautiful, aesthetically pleasing, attractive film. I have no doubt that very many will like the visual richness that pours from the screen every second.
I especially advise this picture to couples in love (for this is a love story), and I ask you not to be afraid of the rating “16+” (because there is nothing “like” in the film). I recommend this movie to all film fans in terms of professional interest. Because I have no doubt that Great Gatsby will remain one of the most debatable, controversial, and debated films of the 21st century. And, of course, sooner or later this picture will become a cult. (I liked this comment!)
Watch my video made back in 2013 under the influence of the film.
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio - Jay Gatsby, CareyMulligan - Daisy Buchanan, Toby Maguire - Nick Carraway, JoelEdgerton - Tom Buchanan, Isla Fisher - Myrtle Wilson, Elizabeth Debicky - Jordan Clarkeden - Jay B. Clarken - Jay B. Jackson , AmitabhBachchan - Meyer Wolfsheim
I do not cite comments from another camp of viewers, there is more likely an analysis of the shortcomings of the film by professionals. But only one thing became clear, many after watching the picture wanted to read the Fitzgerald novel. And this is gratifying!
Music: Victor Zinchuk “Blues”
Movie review
Year: 2013
Production:USA, Australia
Time:143 minutes
The creators of the letters:Baz Lurman, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Starred:Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Toby Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher et al.
DESCRIPTION
1922, New York. The era of nascent jazz, Prohibition and the underground trade in alcohol, the time of decadence and crumbling to ashes of morality. Nick Carraway, having said goodbye to the naive dream of becoming a writer, moves to the Big Apple from the Midwest. From now on, his job is securities manipulation. In pursuit of the illusory "American dream", Nick settles down next to the castle of the mysterious Jay Gatsby - the king of parties and a living legend for the local elite. Every evening, hundreds of people come to rest in the possession of Gatsby, but only a few can boast that they know him personally. Gatsby Castle overlooks the opposite shore of the bay where the villa of Tom Buchanan is located - an aristocrat and polo player. Together with Buchanan lives his wife Daisy - cousin Nick, a very spoiled person. Soon, Carraway receives an invitation to the Gatsby party. He is the only one whom the eccentric millionaire wanted to see in person.
AUTHOR'S OPINION
I will not tire of repeating how ungrateful this thing is - comparing the literary source with the film adaptation. Brutal adherents of the canvas are ready to kill the unfortunate director for the slightest discrepancy. Gandalf has the wrong knob on the staff, woe to all of us! Saruman’s beard is a centimeter shorter - there’s no need to live anymore ... Kill yourself, gentlemen-pedants. And don't bother watching a good movie.
My critical view is not obscured by being overly educated and biased for one simple reason. Make stones, tomatoes and eggs ... Drum roll ... I have not read the book. I have nothing to compare. I am loser. That is why I can judge the merits of the picture solely from the standpoint of cinema. And they, these advantages, are great (I could not resist a pun).
Baz Lurman, known to us from such works as Australia, Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, rarely shoots accurately. And again, he invites Mr. DiCaprio to his project, who has grown incredibly in his acting skills since the time of the tear “Titanic”. However, he grew up a long time ago and shocked the imagination already in The Gangs of New York, and then in The Beginning.
Well, like everyone film adaptations classics, catches not childish. Moreover, it turns upside down our ideas about the main characters, their value systems, and about ourselves. Starting to communicate with Jay, Nick is experiencing a whole evolution of revelation - from primary delight to genuine, sincere admiration. In reverse progression, our vision of the Buchanan family is changing. The whole life of Jay Gatsby is entrusted to the altar of his love for Daisy. He made a fortune for her, he bought a castle for her, he throws his cult parties for one purpose - that she ever came to visit. A miracle happens - thanks to Nick, they again, albeit for a short time, together. And yet ... something is wrong. Re-entering the river of time does not bring Gatsby anything good. Because he stayed there, on the banks of his youth, and Daisy ... Daisy has changed. The cynicism of this world seeped into her blood. She is not ready for change, not ready for truth, because she herself does not know her.
The key dialogue between Tom Buchanan and Gatsby sheds much light on everything that happens. And Daisy’s true feelings, too. Decisiveness is for people who are accustomed to living in poverty and to be aware of the consequences of their actions. But the Buchanans are others by birthright. Tom talks about “trampling” the institution of marriage, about foundations and dirty money. And at the same time, he easily steps over his deceased mistress, renouncing her at a gas station. It is also easy for Daisy to turn away from past feelings. Here it is, the harsh truth of life: today you are loved by everyone, bathed in adoration and admiration, and tomorrow at your funeral there is only one Nick Carraway. The one who was able to understand you truly deeply.
At school, I was struck by Bunin’s short story “The Master from San Francisco” - the very one for which the writer received the Nobel. I then thought for a long time about the frailty of all things and the "glory of the world." I will not retell the plot. Those who read will understand the parallel. LikeThe Great Gatsby Content The "gentleman" is permeated by a certain fate, predestination and mockery of all modifications of the "American dream." Charon, you know, is not impressed with bank accounts. He needs only one coin ...
"The Great Gatsby" is a film adaptation of the Fitzgerald novel of the same name, which is listed in the script. The work was published in 1925.
If you look closely at the walls of the apartment that Tom rents for Myrtle, you can see a canvas depicting Zelda Fitzgerald.
The idea of \u200b\u200bthe film was visited by Lurman Base when he was in Siberia.
Rating: 10 out of 10
Text: Nerve Critic
GETSBI
GETSBI (born Jay Gatsby) is the hero of F. Scott Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925). In the fate of G., the medieval plot of the search for the Holy Grail is ironically twisted (see Parsifal). True, the wanderings and exploits of G. lead to a tragic outcome. A native of North Dakota, the son of poor farmer losers, James Getz, the author writes, “invented Jay Gatsby in full accordance with the tastes and concepts of a seventeen-year-old boy and remained faithful to this invention until the very end.” Once he got on board a luxury yacht, the magnificence of which so impressed the imagination of the farmer’s son, that he vowed to become as rich as the yacht owner. Another fateful event of his youth was the fascination with the young aristocrat Daisy. Having inspired himself with love for the “beautiful lady”, he decides to devote his life to gaining wealth, worldly fame and the heart of Daisy.
Transformed from the ordinary James Getz into a prosperous businessman with an alleged Oxford education, G. arrives in booming New York. There, his indefatigable worship of wealth quickly brings success, the expression of which is the villa-palace in the prestigious area of \u200b\u200bLong Island and almost every day he organizes luxurious parties for local celebrities. Naively dreaming of becoming a byword the strongest of the world of this, he casts upon himself a halo of demonic mystery. It is no accident that many of G.'s acquaintances spread gossip about him as if this nouveau riche is a “German spy,” “a Hindenburg nephew,” or even a runaway killer. Nobody knows that all these wide gestures of the eccentric rich man pursue the only goal - to attract the attention of Daisy. Now she is the wife of Tom Buchanan, G.'s closest neighbor. In the end, G. achieves her main life goal and secretly captures Daisy, just like he acquired a fashionable wardrobe, an elegant car and a luxury villa on the coast. But the finale of G.'s swiftly ephemeral rise to wealth and happiness is ridiculously tragic: he is killed by the husband of his mistress Tom Buchanan.
The tragedy of G.’s life is that he was a stranger to the class to which he dreamed and tried to join. G. is doomed to loneliness. He was lonely in life when, abandoned by his guests, he stood in the evenings on the shore and peered longingly at the distant green light near the Buchanan house. And just as lonely he was after death: none of the countless friends and acquaintances - including the "beautiful lady" - came to take him on his last journey.
The image of "great G." painted by the author with sincere sympathy, but at the same time with a fair amount of irony. G - American "The hero of our time", the so-called "century of jazz", frivolously fun, but not for long, the postwar prosperity of America. G., as a type of “century of jazz,” personifies the dreamy idealism of the poor provincials and the inevitable collapse of their dreams after a brutal collision with a ruthless reality. In this G. can be compared with Dreiser's Clyde Griffiths. G. is “great” because it is typical of American mythology of the 1920s. "Man-who-self-made-yourself." But its "greatness" is somewhat of a parody quality. This long island Trimalchion internally remained a plebeian, and his desire for sophisticated aristocracy turned into only love for "pompous, vulgar and tinsel beauty." No wonder the critic M. Geismar wittily compared G. with the tramp Huckleberry Finn, who set himself the goal of repeating the path of the multi-billionaire Vanderbilt.
In the eponymous film adaptations of the novel, the title role was played by Warren Baxter (1926), Alan Ladd (1949) and Robert Redford (1974).
Lit .: Geismar M. American contemporaries. M. 1976. S.144-152; Allen W. Tradition and Dream. M., 1970. S.263-267.
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Literary heroes. - Academician. 2009 .
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“If you measure a person’s ability to prove himself, then in Gatsby there was something truly magnificent, some kind of heightened sensitivity to all the promises of life ... It was a rare gift of hope, a romantic fuse that I have never seen in anyone else.”
Nick Carraway belongs to the venerable prosperous family of one of the small towns of the Midwest. In 1915 he graduated from Yale University, then fought in Europe; After returning to his hometown after the war, he “couldn’t find a place for himself” and in 1922 leaned east to New York to study credit business. He settled in the suburbs: on the outskirts of the Long Island Strait two completely identical capes protrude into the water, separated by a narrow bay: East Egg and West Egg; in West Egg, between two luxurious villas, and a house was hid, which he rented for eighty dollars a month. His more cousin Daisy lives in the more fashionable East Egg. She is married to Tom Buchanan. Tom is fabulously rich, he studied at Yale at the same time as Nick, and even then Nick was very unsympathetic to his aggressive-flawed manner of behavior. Tom began to cheat on his wife in his honeymoon; and now he does not consider it necessary to hide from Nick his connection with Myrtle Wilson, the wife of the owner of the gas station and car repair, which is located halfway between West Egg and New York, where the highway runs almost right up to the railway and a quarter mile away running next to her. Daisy also knows about her husband’s infidelity, it torments her; Nick left the impression from his first visit to them that Daisy needed to flee this house immediately.
Summer evenings music is heard in Nick’s neighbor’s villa; on weekends, his Rolls Royce turns into a shuttle bus to New York, transporting huge numbers of guests, and a multi-seat Ford runs between the villa and the station. On Mondays, eight servants and a specially hired second gardener remove traces of destruction all day.
Soon Nick receives an official invitation to the party to Mr. Gatsby and turns out to be one of the very few invited: they did not wait for an invitation there, they just came there. No one in the crowd of guests is familiar with the host closely; not everyone knows him by sight. His mysterious, romantic figure arouses keen interest - and speculation is growing in the crowd: some claim that Gatsby killed the man, others that he is a bootlegger, von Hindenburg’s nephew and the devil’s second cousin, and during the war he was a German spy. It is also said that he studied at Oxford. In the crowd of his guests, he is lonely, sober and restrained. The society that enjoyed Gatsby's hospitality paid him that they knew nothing about him. Nick meets Gatsby almost by accident: having talked with some man — they turned out to be fellow soldiers — he noticed that he was somewhat embarrassed by the position of a guest unfamiliar with the owner, and received the answer: “So it's me Gatsby.”
After several meetings, Gatsby asks Nick for a favor. Confused, he walks around for a long time, in evidence of his respectability, presents a medal from Montenegro, which he was awarded in the war, and his Oxford photograph; finally she says in a very childish way that Jordan Baker will state his request - Nick met her at Gatsby's house and met at his sister's house, Daisy: Jordan was her friend. The request was simple - to somehow invite Daisy to his tea, so that, supposedly by accident, as a neighbor, Gatsby could see her, Jordan said that in the fall of 1917 in Louisville, they were with Daisy's hometown, Daisy and Gatsby , then a young lieutenant, loved each other, but were forced to leave; he was sent to Europe, and after a year and a half she married Tom Buchanan. But before the wedding dinner, having thrown the groom's present in the trash - a pearl necklace for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, Daisy got drunk like a shoemaker, and, clutching a letter in one hand and a bottle of stashed in the other, begged her friend to refuse her name to the groom. However, she was shoved into a cold bath, allowed to smell ammonia, put a necklace on her neck, and she "got married like a sweet little one."
The meeting has occurred; Daisy saw his house (for Gatsby it was very important); the festivities in the villa ceased, and Gatsby replaced all the servants with others "who know how to be silent," because Daisy began to visit him often. Gatsby also met with Tom, who showed an active rejection of himself, his house, his guests, and became interested in the source of his income, probably doubtful.
One day after lunch with Tom and Daisy, Nick, Jordan and Gatsby with the hosts go to have fun in New York. Everyone understands that Tom and Gatsby entered a decisive battle for Daisy. At the same time, Tom, Nick and Jordan ride in the cream Rolls-Royce of Gatsby, and he and Daisy are in Tom's dark blue Ford. Halfway there, Tom calls in to refuel with Wilson - he announces that he intends to leave forever and take his wife away: he suspected something was wrong, but he did not connect her with Treason. Tom becomes frantic, realizing that he can simultaneously lose both his wife and lover. In New York, an explanation took place: Gatsby tells Tom that Daisy does not love him and never loved him, he was just poor and she was tired of waiting; in response to this, Tom exposes the source of his income, which is truly illegal: bootlegging of a very large scope. Daisy is shocked; she tends to stay with Tom. Realizing that he won, on the way back, Tom tells his wife to ride in a cream car with Gatsby; the others behind her in a lagging navy blue Ford. Having approached the gas station, they see the crowd and the body of the downed Myrtle. From the window she saw Tom and Jordan, whom she mistook for Daisy, in a large cream car, but her husband locked her, and she could not come; when the car returned, Myrtle, freed from the castle, rushed to her. Everything happened very quickly, there were practically no witnesses, the car did not even slow down. Nick learned from Gatsby that Daisy was driving.
Gatsby stayed under her windows until morning to be there if she needed to. Nick looked out the window - Tom and Daisy were sitting together, as if they were one thing - spouses or maybe accomplices; but he didn’t have the courage to take away Gatsby’s last hope.
It was only at four in the morning that Nick heard a taxi with Gatsby pull up. Nick did not want to leave him alone, and since that morning Gatsby wanted to talk about Daisy, and only about Daisy, it was then that Nick learned the strange story of his youth and his love.
James Getz - that was his real name. He changed it at seventeen when he saw Dan Cody's yacht and warned Dan about the storm. His parents were simple farmers - in his dreams, he never recognized them as his parents. He invented Jay Gatsby to himself in full accordance with the tastes and concepts of a seventeen-year-old boy and remained faithful to this invention until the very end. He recognized women early and, spoiled by them, learned to despise them. Confusion reigned in his soul; he believed in the unreality of the real, in the fact that the world rests firmly and reliably on the wings of a fairy. When he stood on the oars and looked up at the white hull of Cody’s yacht, it seemed to him that everything beautiful and amazing that was in the world was embodied in it. Dan Cody, a millionaire who made a fortune in Nevada’s silver mines and Montana oil operations, took him on a yacht — first a steward, then he became a senior assistant, captain, secretary; five years they swam around the continent; then Dan died. From the inheritance of twenty-five thousand dollars that Dan left him, he did not receive a cent, and did not understand, by virtue of what legal intricacies. And he remained with what gave him a peculiar experience of these five years: the abstract scheme of Jay Gatsby clothed himself in flesh and blood and became a man. Daisy was the first "girl from society" on his way. From the first time, she seemed dizzying to him. He began to visit her house - first in the company of other officers, then alone. He had never seen such a beautiful house, but he well understood that he was not rightfully in this house. The military uniform, which served as his invisible cloak, could fall off his shoulders at any moment, and under him he was just a young man without a clan and tribe and without a penny in his pocket. And so he tried not to lose time. He probably expected to take what was possible and leave, but it turned out that he doomed himself to the eternal service of the shrine. She disappeared in her rich house, in her rich, brimming with life, and he was left with nothing - except for the strange feeling that they are now husband and wife. With stunning clarity, Gatsby comprehended the mystery of youth in captivity and under the protection of wealth ...
His military career was a success: at the end of the war he was already a major. He was eager to go home, but because of a misunderstanding he ended up in Oxford - anyone from the armies of the victorious countries could attend a course at any university in Europe for free. In the letters, Daisy was filled with nervousness and longing; she was young; she wanted to arrange her life now, today; she needed to make a decision, and for it to come, some kind of power was needed - love, money, undeniable benefits; Tom arose. Gatsby received the letter back in Oxford.
Saying goodbye to Gatsby this morning, Nick, having already departed, shouted: “Nothingness on insignificance, here they are! You alone stand them all together! ” How glad he was then that he said these words!
Not hoping for justice, distraught Wilson came to Tom, found out from him who owned the car, and killed Gatsby, and then himself.
The funeral was attended by three people: Nick, Mr. Goetz - the father of Gatsby, and only one of the many guests, although Nick phoned all the regulars at Gatsby parties. When he called Daisy, he was told that she and Tom had left and had not left an address.
They were careless creatures, Tom and Daisy, they broke things and people, and then ran away and hid for their money, their all-consuming carelessness or something else that their union rested on, leaving others to clean up after them.