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The Great Gatsby

174 illustrations · 17 chapters

Chapter 1A newcomer settles beside Gatsby's mansion

  1. A hazy early-summer dawn over Long Island Sound and the low green shore of West Egg
  2. A slanting beam of autumn light holds a column of drifting dust.
  3. Young Nick Carraway stands beside his great-uncle's portrait in his father's office
  4. A pale early-summer morning in the narrow kitchen of Nick's cheap rented bungalow.
  5. Nick walks on down the sunlit country road, quietly lifted after a stranger asked him the way.
  6. A row of new red-and-gold banking volumes stands on Nick's pine shelf, gleaming like fresh coins.
  7. From above, two green peninsulas of the same shape face each other across a calm bay
  8. From a gap in the hedge, Nick looks up at his neighbour's colossal new mansion

Chapter 2Dinner at East Egg and the green light

  1. On a June evening, the bay glitters gold and East Egg's white palaces stand across it
  2. On a warm, windy evening, Nick walks up the drive to the Buchanans' Georgian mansion
  3. Tom Buchanan stands legs apart atop his porch steps in riding boots, eyeing the guest
  4. Laughing, Daisy half-rises from the ivory couch and reaches out a hand to Nick
  5. In the rosy East Egg salon, Jordan Baker speaks Gatsby's name for the first time
  6. At dinner on the rosy porch, Tom counts the Nordics at the table and nods at his wife
  7. At dusk on the porch, Jordan Baker quietly tells Nick that Tom has a woman in New York
  8. Alone with her cousin on the dark veranda, Daisy turns her face away toward the lawn.
  9. Alone on his moonlit lawn, Gatsby stretches both arms out toward the dark bay, trembling.
  10. Night over the bay seen from Nick's lawn.

Chapter 3Tom's mistress and the party on 158th Street

  1. A high view of the grey valley of ashes, where the road runs beside the railroad
  2. Faded blue eyes in yellow spectacles look down from a billboard on the valley of ashes
  3. Myrtle Wilson stands in the garage's office doorway, her body blocking out the light
  4. Myrtle kneels over her new puppy in the cramped 158th Street flat full of huge furniture
  5. Tipsy chatter fills Myrtle's cramped apartment.
  6. In the crowded 158th Street apartment, Myrtle points at Nick and everyone turns to look
  7. A passer-by on 158th Street looks up at lit top windows where a secret party goes on
  8. Myrtle remembers how she met Tom on the train.
  9. Drunk and triumphant, Myrtle Wilson shouts Daisy's name a moment before Tom strikes her
  10. Tom Buchanan swings a short, practised blow at Myrtle, her mouth open on Daisy's name
  11. The party on 158th Street is over.

Chapter 4First Party at Gatsby's House

  1. At summer dusk, Gatsby's mansion blazes with coloured lights over the dark Sound
  2. Nick spots a familiar face above the crowd at Gatsby's first party.
  3. After a whisper that he killed a man, the table turns to search the garden for Gatsby
  4. Nick and Jordan leave the noisy party and step into a hushed, lantern-lit Gothic library.
  5. In the second before he says his name, the stranger at the table stops and looks blankly at Nick.
  6. Gatsby's rare smile of eternal reassurance turns fully on Nick at the midnight table.
  7. At the party's height, tipsy girls fall laughing into waiting arms as a quartet sways
  8. Late at night, Gatsby and Jordan Baker come out of the Gothic library sharing a secret
  9. Past Gatsby's gate, a coupé sits in the ditch, one wheel off, lit by a dozen headlights
  10. A large patent dancing shoe emerges from the wrecked coupé into the headlight glare
  11. Nick looks back from his own ragged lawn after the party.

Chapter 5Nick's summer: work, loneliness, Jordan

  1. At summer dawn, tiny clerks hurry through the white stone canyons of lower Manhattan
  2. At twilight, Nick walks alone up Fifth Avenue among motorcars and lit shop windows
  3. On Fifth Avenue at twilight, Nick passes lone young clerks and sees his own loneliness
  4. Nick stands alone on a dark street in the Forties as taxis of laughing couples roll by
  5. It is midsummer at a house-party in Warwick.
  6. On a rain-soaked porch in Warwick, Jordan Baker calmly denies leaving a car in the rain
  7. Jordan drives the open car on a wet road and calmly tells Nick she likes him
  8. Jordan Baker keeps her grey eyes on the road after telling Nick she likes him
  9. Alone in the club library at night, Nick holds his pen just above the end of his weekly letter home.

Chapter 6Gatsby's Life Story on the Road to Town

  1. Church bells ring on a bright Sunday as Gatsby's guests gather again on his vast lawn
  2. An old railway timetable crowded with faded names of everyone at Gatsby's that summer
  3. On a bright July morning, Gatsby's huge cream car lurches up to Nick's grey bungalow
  4. On a late-July morning Gatsby balances on the dashboard of his long cream car in Nick's rocky drive.
  5. As Gatsby says he was educated at Oxford, his blue-grey eyes slide sideways toward Nick
  6. At the wheel, Gatsby says Little Montenegro! with a full, warm smile over an open palm
  7. Gatsby drops a medal on a ribbon into Nick's open palm, the sun flashing on the metal
  8. Nick lowers Gatsby's Oxford photograph onto his chest and stops doubting.
  9. From Gatsby's speeding car, Nick glimpses Mrs. Wilson straining at the garage pump
  10. Under the elevated, Gatsby waves a small white card at a frowning motorcycle policeman
  11. Seen through the Queensboro Bridge girders, Manhattan rises white across the river
  12. On the Queensboro Bridge, Nick leans toward Manhattan's white towers in wonder

Chapter 7Lunch with Wolfshiem, Tom, and a Vanishing

  1. Forty-second Street burns white at noon, loud with traffic and crowded with people
  2. In the dim cellar anteroom, Meyer Wolfshiem slowly raises his large head.
  3. Wolfshiem ends his tale of Rosy Rosenthal's murder and turns a measuring look on Nick
  4. With Gatsby's chair empty, Wolfshiem proudly calls him an Oggsford man to Nick
  5. Wolfshiem's wrist lies on the white tablecloth next to a half-eaten plate of hash.
  6. Over lunch, Gatsby calmly tells Nick that Meyer Wolfshiem fixed the 1919 World's Series
  7. Close-up of Nick Carraway, eyes wide, as he learns who fixed the 1919 World's Series
  8. Tom Buchanan grips Gatsby's hand while looking past him, and Gatsby looks embarrassed
  9. Nick turns to introduce Gatsby to Tom Buchanan and finds an empty strip of tiled aisle

Chapter 8Jordan tells the story of Daisy and Gatsby

  1. On a hazy summer afternoon in 1922, the white Plaza Hotel rises over Fifth Avenue
  2. In the Plaza's gilded tea-garden, Jordan Baker sits very straight and begins her story
  3. Louisville, October 1917: Daisy Fay and Lieutenant Jay Gatsby sit in her white roadster
  4. In Daisy's white roadster, a young lieutenant gazes at her while she talks to Jordan
  5. Before her wedding, drunk Daisy pulls Tom's pearls from a wastebasket, gripping a letter
  6. Daisy's letter lies in the soap-dish as a sodden ball, falling apart like snow
  7. The story is over and the open victoria rolls slowly through Central Park in the hot violet dusk.
  8. Nick remembers the June night on the lawn in West Egg.
  9. In the open victoria at dusk, Nick turns to Jordan, stunned by how small Gatsby's request is.
  10. Night in Central Park: in the open victoria, Nick draws Jordan up close to his face a second time.

Chapter 9The Reunion at Tea

  1. At two in the morning, only Gatsby's mansion burns with light in dark, silent West Egg
  2. At two in the morning, Gatsby carelessly answers Nick's promise to invite Daisy to tea
  3. Daisy leans out of an open car under dripping lilacs, smiling at Nick in the rain
  4. Gatsby stands in a puddle on Nick's rainy doorstep with his hands sunk in his pockets.
  5. The stopped mantel clock tips over the edge of the shelf.
  6. After the rain, Gatsby sits quite still at the end of Nick's small sofa.
  7. Daisy buries her face in the bright heap of Gatsby's shirts and sobs.
  8. At the misty window, Daisy slips her arm through Gatsby's as he gazes at the grey Sound
  9. At the height of the reunion, bewilderment comes back into Gatsby's eyes.
  10. Nick stops in the doorway of the gilded music-room and looks back once.

Chapter 10Can't repeat the past? Of course you can!

  1. A wide view of Gatsby's huge mansion on a summer morning, Nick's bungalow beside it
  2. On Lake Superior's empty shore, 17-year-old James Gatz stands by a borrowed rowboat
  3. In a borrowed rowboat, barefoot James Gatz smiles up at Dan Cody on the Tuolomee
  4. Gatsby leans over the marble table and tells Tom Buchanan he knows his wife
  5. Gatsby gives Nick a hopeful, questioning look, wanting to accept the supper invitation
  6. Gatsby steps out, dressed to follow riders already vanishing under the August trees
  7. Daisy and Gatsby slip away from the party to sit close on Nick's steps for half an hour
  8. Under the white-plum tree, the film director stoops a final degree toward his Star.
  9. Daisy looks back from Gatsby's marble steps at the lit, empty doorway as a waltz plays
  10. An extreme close-up of Gatsby's face at the instant Nick says the past can't be repeated.
  11. Under the autumn moon in Louisville, Daisy Fay lifts her face to the young lieutenant's
  12. Deep in the August night, Nick's lips part as a half-remembered phrase almost forms.

Chapter 11Heat at the Buchanans’ and the Drive to Town

  1. On a Saturday night, Gatsby's mansion stands dark among West Egg's lit cottages
  2. Gatsby and Nick, in straw hats, wait on the threshold of the Buchanans' cool white hall
  3. Nick and Gatsby step out of the broiling noon into the Buchanans' dark, cool salon.
  4. With Tom gone for drinks, Daisy pulls Gatsby's face down to hers and says she loves him
  5. In the dim, rosy salon, Gatsby bends to shake the hand of Daisy's small daughter.
  6. On the Buchanans' veranda, Gatsby points across the bay to his house as Tom watches
  7. At the darkened luncheon table, Daisy and Gatsby gaze into each other's eyes as if alone
  8. At the darkened luncheon table, Tom Buchanan catches one unguarded look between his wife and Gatsby.
  9. On the drive, Gatsby looks up at Daisy's window and says her voice is full of money
  10. As Daisy frowns at Tom, an unfamiliar look passes over Gatsby's face
  11. Tom, Jordan and Nick drive off down the blazing drive in Gatsby's cream car.

Chapter 12Stop at Wilson's garage, road to the Plaza

  1. At midday the valley of ashes lies grey under a white glare.
  2. Three people crammed on the yellow car's front seat cross the valley of ashes
  3. Three people ride in the front seat of Gatsby's yellow car in hot, irritable silence.
  4. The yellow car skids to a stop in the dust under Wilson's sign.
  5. At Wilson's pump in the midday glare, Tom jerks round in the driver's seat.
  6. At Wilson's garage, Nick looks from the grey, hunched Wilson to Tom, flushed at the wheel
  7. Myrtle Wilson moves the upstairs curtain aside and stares down at the yellow car
  8. From behind a curtain above the garage, Myrtle Wilson stares down at the yellow car
  9. Tom Buchanan grips the wheel of the yellow car under the elevated's girders.
  10. At the wheel of the yellow car, Tom twists round to look for the blue coupé behind him
  11. Five people stand apart in a stifling Plaza Hotel parlour on a white-hot afternoon.

Chapter 13The Showdown in the Hotel Suite

  1. On the hottest afternoon of summer, the Plaza stands in a white-hot haze by Central Park
  2. Nick is relieved as Gatsby explains Oxford was offered to officers after the armistice
  3. In the stifling Plaza suite, Gatsby quietly tells Tom that his wife has never loved him
  4. Daisy looks toward Nick and Jordan for help that doesn't come
  5. Standing small in the Plaza suite, Daisy reluctantly says she never loved him
  6. Daisy sobs that she loved them both as Gatsby stands frozen beside her
  7. Daisy's "I loved you too" breaks Gatsby's five-year dream without a sound.
  8. For one instant in the stifling Plaza suite, Gatsby's polished mask drops away.
  9. The quarrel is over, and Daisy and Gatsby have left the stifling Plaza suite.
  10. In the cooling twilight, one small coupé crosses the huge dark span of the Queensboro Bridge.

Chapter 14Myrtle's death at the roadside garage

  1. The valley of ashes lies still in the late-afternoon heat.
  2. Michaelis finds George Wilson really sick, pale and shaking in the dusty garage office
  3. Shaking at his desk, Wilson tells Michaelis he has locked his wife in upstairs
  4. At dusk, Myrtle Wilson bursts into the road, arms up, shouting at oncoming headlights
  5. The car that killed Myrtle Wilson reaches the bend, red tail lights fading into the haze
  6. Myrtle's body lies in blankets on the garage worktable as Tom stands frozen over it
  7. Wilson cries an accusation from the office doorway, and every head turns toward him
  8. Tom Buchanan holds the collapsing Wilson upright and whispers the yellow car wasn't his
  9. Nick tells the sweating policeman they've come straight from New York
  10. Driving away from the garage at night, Tom Buchanan breaks down at the wheel of the coupé.

Chapter 15Gatsby's vigil in the moonlight

  1. East Egg lies silver and still under a high moon an hour after the crash.
  2. Jordan reads Nick's dislike, turns sharply and runs into the Buchanans' house
  3. On the dark Buchanan drive, Gatsby steps out of the bushes and calls Nick's name
  4. An extreme close-up of Nick's grey eyes in cold moonlight.
  5. Gatsby stands against the dark bushes in the moonlight in his glowing pink suit.
  6. Nick looks under the blind of the pantry window and sees Tom and Daisy at their kitchen table.
  7. Tom's heavy hand covers Daisy's beside cold fried chicken and two capped bottles of ale
  8. Late at night, Tom covers Daisy's hand over the untouched supper while she nods quietly
  9. Nick walks down the moonlit drive toward the waiting taxi.

Chapter 16The Last Night and the Pool

  1. Before dawn, Gatsby's dark mansion and Nick's bungalow sink into fog above the Sound
  2. On a starlit Louisville porch, Daisy turns toward Lieutenant Gatsby on the wicker settee
  3. Before going abroad, the young officer holds Daisy by the fire and kisses her hair
  4. At dawn, Gatsby stares far beyond the open window and says it was just personal
  5. In a day-coach vestibule, Gatsby reaches toward Louisville as it slips away at sunset
  6. On the marble steps, Gatsby breaks into a radiant smile at Nick's only compliment
  7. Michaelis's hand stops above a new silver dog-leash, the only thing in the drawer
  8. At dawn, Wilson presses his face to the window, staring at the pale eyes of Eckleburg
  9. Gatsby lies adrift on his mattress in the marble pool under a raw autumn sky.
  10. A limp hand hangs from the air mattress as a thin red thread curves across the water

Chapter 17Gatsby's Empty Funeral and Nick's Farewell to the East

  1. Nick steps back into the drawing-room, where officials he doesn't know stand around Gatsby's bier.
  2. Officials pull the sheet from Gatsby's still face as Nick stands frozen in the doorway
  3. Alone in the mansion hall, Nick tells a stranger on the Chicago line that Gatsby is dead
  4. In Gatsby's music-room, his father sits hunched on the canapé with a glass of milk
  5. Mr. Gatz rests a finger on young James Gatz's 1906 schedule in Hopalong Cassidy
  6. The funeral hour has passed in Gatsby's huge hall.
  7. A few people stand in the grey drizzle at Gatsby's open grave, beside a bare heap of wet clay.
  8. Nick Carraway stands in the quiet Manhattan sitting-room just after his last handshake with Jordan.
  9. On Fifth Avenue, Tom Buchanan stares at Nick in silence in front of the jeweller's lit window.
  10. Gatsby's beach at night is empty.
  11. A lone man sits on a moonlit beach, looking toward the tiny green light across the Sound