The Great Gatsby Chapter Summaries
Questions and Answers Graded A+
Chapter One ✔✔1) We meet our narrator. But before we really know who he is, we hear the
advice that he got from his father: "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember
that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
2)Nick introduces us to the setting: New York City and the twin villages of West Egg and East
Egg in Long Island. West Egg, where Carraway lives, is not as exclusive as East Egg-makes
Nick feel like he doesn't belong amongst the other characters.
3)Nick heads over to East Egg to have dinner with Daisy, his cousin and her husband, Tom
Buchanan at Gatsby's house.
4)We meet Jordan Baker.
5)The symbolism of the Green Light is introduced when Gatsby looks at it across the bay.
Chapter Two ✔✔1)"The Valley of the Ashes" scene is introduced to us.
2)Nick, Tom and Gatsby are travelling to New York but stop by at Wilson's garage to collect
Myrtle, Wilson's wife and Tom's mistress.
3)Nick gets drunk for the second time in his life.
4)Tom breaks Myrtle's Nose after he asks her to stop talking about Daisy, his wife-this shows
that he loves Daisy and doesn't respect Myrtle-she is portrayed as a simple distraction for Tom.
, 5)The chapter ends with Nick at the train station early in the morning unaware of how he ended
up there-this portrays him as an unreliable narrator and there is a gap in the structure of the novel
due to this.
Chapter Three ✔✔1) Nick attends his first party at Gatsby's after being handed an invitation by
Gatsby's chauffeur.
2)Nick goes into the library at Gatsby's house and meets a man with owl-eyed spectacles who
mentions one of the famous Fitzgerald lines: "I've been drunk for about a week now, and I
thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
3)Nick discovers he knew Gatsby as they were both in world war one.
Chapter Four ✔✔1)Gatsby takes Nick to lunch in his yellow Rolls-Royce.
2) Gatsby explains to Nick his own personal history: he's the son of the wealthy Midwesterners
and he was educated at Oxford.
3) In New York, Gatsby introduces Nick to Meyer Wolfsheim-Nick instinctively knows there is
something fishy about Wolfsheim's business connections with Gatsby,
4)They meet Tom by accident, but when Nick turns to introduce Gatsby to Tom, Gatsby has
disappeared.
5)Nick later meets up with Jordan and she tells Nick the story of how Gatsby and Daisy met in
October, 1917.
Questions and Answers Graded A+
Chapter One ✔✔1) We meet our narrator. But before we really know who he is, we hear the
advice that he got from his father: "Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember
that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
2)Nick introduces us to the setting: New York City and the twin villages of West Egg and East
Egg in Long Island. West Egg, where Carraway lives, is not as exclusive as East Egg-makes
Nick feel like he doesn't belong amongst the other characters.
3)Nick heads over to East Egg to have dinner with Daisy, his cousin and her husband, Tom
Buchanan at Gatsby's house.
4)We meet Jordan Baker.
5)The symbolism of the Green Light is introduced when Gatsby looks at it across the bay.
Chapter Two ✔✔1)"The Valley of the Ashes" scene is introduced to us.
2)Nick, Tom and Gatsby are travelling to New York but stop by at Wilson's garage to collect
Myrtle, Wilson's wife and Tom's mistress.
3)Nick gets drunk for the second time in his life.
4)Tom breaks Myrtle's Nose after he asks her to stop talking about Daisy, his wife-this shows
that he loves Daisy and doesn't respect Myrtle-she is portrayed as a simple distraction for Tom.
, 5)The chapter ends with Nick at the train station early in the morning unaware of how he ended
up there-this portrays him as an unreliable narrator and there is a gap in the structure of the novel
due to this.
Chapter Three ✔✔1) Nick attends his first party at Gatsby's after being handed an invitation by
Gatsby's chauffeur.
2)Nick goes into the library at Gatsby's house and meets a man with owl-eyed spectacles who
mentions one of the famous Fitzgerald lines: "I've been drunk for about a week now, and I
thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
3)Nick discovers he knew Gatsby as they were both in world war one.
Chapter Four ✔✔1)Gatsby takes Nick to lunch in his yellow Rolls-Royce.
2) Gatsby explains to Nick his own personal history: he's the son of the wealthy Midwesterners
and he was educated at Oxford.
3) In New York, Gatsby introduces Nick to Meyer Wolfsheim-Nick instinctively knows there is
something fishy about Wolfsheim's business connections with Gatsby,
4)They meet Tom by accident, but when Nick turns to introduce Gatsby to Tom, Gatsby has
disappeared.
5)Nick later meets up with Jordan and she tells Nick the story of how Gatsby and Daisy met in
October, 1917.
