The Great Gatsby Francis Scott Fitzgerald

1. Hana Hančíková The Great GatsbyFrancis Scott Fitzgerald

2. he was born in Minnesota in 1896 his family inspired him to write a novel The Great Gatsby his father came from a wealthy upper-class family and his mother came from Irish poor family, when her father came to the USA, he worked very hard and became a wealthy shop owner like the Great Gatsby business of his father failed and they lived on the money that mother's father had left her Fitzgerald understood that money had to be earned in 1918 Fitzgerald fell in love with Zelda Sayre, but she refused to marry him because he had no money F. S. Fitzgerald

3. he wrote a novel This Side of Paradise and he became successful and rich, after that Zelda married him they went to the best restaurants, to the best parties and they started to drink alcohol in 1925 he wrote a novel The Great Gatsby but it was for him financially disappointing Zelda spent the rest of her life in mental hospitals and Fitzgerald he was a failure at life and maybe at writing

4. Nick Carraway (a narrator) is a young man from Minnesota, in the summer of 1922 he moves to New York to learn about the bond business he rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island, where Jay Gatsby lives in a huge house and arranges the big parties in East Egg, which is more fashionable area, live his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom, who is a flirt and have a relation with Myrtle Wilson, her husband have a shop with cars Daisy and Tom have lived togetherfive years and have a daughter Plot

5. Nick accepts an invitation on the Gatsby's party and he is getting knowledge that Gatsby know Daisy and that he has loved her • in the past Gatsby was a poor soldier and Daisy didn't want to marry him, he became wealthy when he had a business with bootleg alky • Nick appoints them a date, Daisy and Gatsby fall in love • one day at a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Tom finds out that Gatsby and Daisy have a relation, they drive to the Plaza Hotel, Tom says to Daisy that Gatsby had a business with bootleg alcohol and Daisy decides to stay with Tom because she is really lip-deep

6. Daisy drives at homefrom the hotel, she is in car with Gatsby and she overrides Myrtle but this fact know only Gatsby Mr Wilson thinks that the car was driven by Gatsby and he kills him Nick makes a small funeral for Gatsby and moves back to the Midwest during the story Nick have a relation with Jordan Baker, who is a golferand lives with Daisy and Tom, butshe and Nick have got spats and they don't stay together

7. it is inspired by story of Fitzgerald's life and it has got a deep idea it symbolizes a rise and a fall of American dream, a glassines of people who want only money, high station and good repute Pros

8. it is pessimistic story it is a bit stretched it hasn't got long descriptions of feelings it was at all bizzare for me, I don't like this story, it was about profuse life when people like only money and sex appeal which isn't connected with loveand I think Fitzgerald could take an example from his own books Cons

9. the story was shot in 1974 by Jack Clayton in the USA a role of Jay Gatsby was interpreted by Robert Redford

10. bootleg = ilegální, pašovaný bond = cenný papír delight = potěšení, rozkoš inquiry = pátrání, vyšetřování insist = naléhat lip-deep = povrchní sideline = vedlejší činnost Dictionary

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