Has anybody read the Great Gatsby or the Garcia Girls?

Question

If you have can you give me a summary? Best summary or summaries gets 10 or more points

Answer 1

Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, a New York bond dealer from the Midwest, befriends his neighbour Jay Gatsby, an extremely wealthy young man known for throwing lavish soirées in his Long Island mansion. Gatsby's great wealth is a subject of much rumor; none of the guests whom Nick meets at Gatsby's parties know much about his past. Gatsby is infatuated with an old flame, Daisy Buchanan, who happens to be Nick's second cousin and the wife of one of his Yale classmates, a wealthy former footballer named Tom Buchanan. Nick learns that the Buchanan marriage is not particularly happy — Tom has had numerous affairs with other women; the latest involves Myrtle, the wife of George Wilson, an auto mechanic.

Through Jordan Baker, a young golf pro with whom Nick is mildly infatuated, Gatsby asks Nick to arrange a meeting with Daisy, who he last saw five years ago as a suitor during his military training near her home in Louisville. In the intervening period, Gatsby fought in World War I, then, stung by the need to make himself a wealthy man to vie for Daisy's attention, became involved in organized crime through Meyer Wolfsheim, through which he quickly made his fortune. Daisy, disinclined to wait, became engaged to Tom. On the eve of her wedding, she became distraught when she received a letter from Gatsby, but went through with the nuptials anyway.

Their meeting is at first strained (unnerving Nick), but turns more communicative when Gatsby relaxes. They see more of each other at Gatsby's house, with Tom occasionally in attendance. The conflict comes to a head in New York City, when Tom confronts Gatsby about the affair that Tom suspected, and Gatsby claims that Daisy will leave Tom and go with Gatsby. Daisy declares that she loves Gatsby, then admits that she loves Tom, as well. Flustered, Daisy departs for Long Island with Gatsby in his car; the rest follow later, in another. By this point, Nick (who placed himself as an outsider early on in the novel) has become both Gatsby's sole ally and best friend. In response, Nick finds himself becoming extremely loyal to Gatsby, and comes to view Gatsby as his closest friend. During the middle of the hotel room confrontation, Nick becomes so impressed by Gatsby that he feels the desire to "get up and pat him on the back", saying he has experienced a complete renewal of faith in Gatsby.

Daisy is driving when Gatsby's car kills a woman in a hit and run accident. The woman was Tom's lover, Myrtle Wilson, who has run out to meet the car, thinking it is Tom coming for her. Tom was her lover and is Daisy's husband. Myrtle's husband at first believes Tom has killed Myrtle (partly because Mr. Wilson correctly suspects Tom of hitting Myrtle previously), and confronts Tom, who directs him to Gatsby's car. Mr. Wilson tracks the car to Gatsby's house and shoots Gatsby to death, then kills himself. Daisy allows Tom to continue to believe it was Gatsby at the wheel when Myrtle was killed in the hit and run. None of the legions who attended his parties come to Gatsby's funeral; only Nick, Gatsby's father Henry Gatz (Gatsby changed the name in his social-climbing efforts), and an unnamed man known for his "owl" eyes whom Nick met in Gatsby's library pay their respects. Nick later meets Tom and Daisy and berates them as rich people who leave it to others to clean up their messes. Nick breaks off his relationship with Jordan (in whom he saw a fundamental dishonesty) and moves back to the West.
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Trivia

* The introduction features a poem attributed to Thomas Parke D'Invilliers, who is actually a character from Fitzgerald's first novel This Side Of Paradise.
* Early in the book, Tom Buchanan describes to Nick a book he's reading, "Rise of the Colored Empire" by some Goddard. This book is a play on T. Lothrop Stoddard's book, "The Rising Tide of Color" printed about 1922. Fitzgerald obviously didn't want to use the real title and author (whether for dislike or era-appropriateness).
* The college that Jay Gatsby was said to have attended for a few days ("disliking it because he had to support himself with janitor work"), St. Olaf College, is a liberal arts college located in Northfield, Minnesota, a short drive from where Fitzgerald grew up.
* The situation of the Great Gatsby, a wealthy man of mystery haunting the society of his lost love, may owe something to Alexandre Dumas, père's Count of Monte Cristo.
* The character of Meyer Wolfsheim in the novel is based on Arnold Rothstein, the real-life kingpin suspected to be behind the fixing of the 1919 World Series.
* Fitzgerald originally wanted to title the novel Trimalchio in West Egg, after the character Trimalchio in The Satyricon that Gatsby resembles.
* After The Great Gatsby went to press, Fitzgerald decided to change the title of the novel to "Under the Red, White, and Blue." He sent a telegram to his publisher asking whether it was too late to change it. (It was.)
* The Great Gatsby was sometimes read out loud by Andy Kaufman in a faux British accent as a type of anti-humor.
* Famous American author Truman Capote was originally hired as the screenwriter for the 1974 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. In his screenplay, Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker were both written to be homosexual. Capote was removed from the project; Coppola rewrote the screenplay.
* Seattle-based rock band Gatsby's American Dream derived their name from an obvious theme in the book.
* Gatsby's copy of Hoppalong Cassidy is dated 1906, which is not possible since it was published in 1910.
* East Egg and West Egg are thinly disguised versions of Port Washington and Great Neck, New York.
* Business man Bill Gates has the words "He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it." inscribed in his library. Taken from the last page of the novel, it most likely symbolizes the bay that separated his own house and Daisy's.

Answer 2

Read Great Gatsby. Poor boy hob nobs with his rich neighbors for a while. It's the WORST book ever written. I wrote a book report about why I hated it in the 10th grade. I got an A.

Answer 3

I have read the great Gatsby.It about a bunch of rich white people who sit around getting drunk and crap.Watch the movie if your trying to avoid reading it

Answer 4

the best summaries are at sparknotes.com

it really helps me if i cant understand something that goes on in the book. it has chapter summers, overall summaries, characters, and analysis

Answer 5

I read Gatsby. Loved it.

Rent the DVD.

Answer 6

Gatsby.

Poor boy tries to win back the girl of his dreams, but you cannot get back that which you have lost.