summary of The Great Gastby Nick was born in American Midwest, when he grew up he went to New York to study the business of buying and selling bonds and wanted to become rich. He lived in west egg of long island, neighboring with Gatsby, who is the leading character in this novel, and made friend with him. Gatsby, whose primitive name was Gates, also came from Midwest. He was born poor but ambitious, and became sudden wealthy by selling illegal alcohol. Holding parties pretty often in his house, entertaining many guests from all works of life so that he could show off his wealth, his purpose was to attract his first lover daisy and to get her heart back. Daisy was Gatsby`s lover when Gatsby was serving in the army five years ago, but she married Tom Buchanan who was born from a rich family out of being blinded by greed while Gatsby went to join the world did not war two overseas. However, the satisfaction of material and sensuality did not fulfill the emptiness and poorness of her mind. Under Caraway`s help, daisy met Gatsby and fell for him again. But this Daisy was not the former Daisy. She was now not as pure as Gatsby thought but just a stupid, selfish, vulgar and pretty body. Finally Gatsby`s beautiful old dream was broken, but he still kept the last hope. Afterwards daisy ran over Tom`s lover and killed her when she was drunk driving Gatsby`s car, then she plot to impute it to Gatsby, which caused Gatsby was killed by the dead`s husband who burst into his house and shot him then shot himself, making Gatsby became the victim of selfish and cruel daisy tragically. Nick and only few friends of Gatsby attended his funeral, which was contrasted by the scene of very busy parties in his house when he was alive. After attending this funeral, Nick decided to go back to his hometown Midwest, keeping away from this noisy, indifferent and false western big city.