It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.
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So....what is it about this book that made me wanna pick it up? Well one, I've never read it before. Two, because this books is being turned into a movie and I wanna see it. Did I enjoy this book? Yes I did-I enjoyed it a whole lot because the narrator, Nick Carraway, tells the story of how he met Jay at one of his extravigant parties and then it also tells how Jay and Daisy fell in low and how Jay pursuit his love for Daisy, who is married to Tom.
But one thing is bothering me: How come Daisy never knew, in the beginning, about Tom's Mistress in New York? If she did knew, why didn't she divorce him?
