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The book initiates with the narrator, Nick Carraway, characterizing himself as highly moral and highly tolerant. Forward in the text, we get to the summer of 1922, where he tells us of his decision to move to New York, and buy a house on the West Egg, the home of the ‘newly rich’, and also next door to Gatsby’s big mansion. Furthermore, we learn that he starts to work in the bond business. Unlike most of his West Egg neighbors, Nick has many connections to the East Egg, mainly because of his graduation from Yale. One evening, he goes to eat dinner at his friends’ house, Tom and Daisy Buchanan. There he also meets Jordan Baker, a woman seeming bored by her surroundings, but also seems to rouse Nick’s curiosity.
 * Synne - summary/question p. 1 – 10**

Question: Do you think something will happen between Jordan Baker and Nick Carraway?


 * Bror - summary/question p. 11 – 20**

We enter a conversation where Nick is talking to miss Baker, but keeps getting interrupted, which annoys him. Daisy joins the conversation and mentions Gatsby, a man she knows from the West Egg. Nick doesn't get to reply because he is again, interrupted. He starts to take a note of Daisy after some glasses of corky and the party goes on, while Nick is actually enjoing himself. They get more and more personal in their conversations and topics and seem to be hitting it of rather well. "For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face[...]. Carraway tries continuehis conversation on what appears to be his neighbour Mr. gatsby with Daisy but is turned down because she wants to eveasdrop on the party from the neighbouring room. She is aware that her housband is having an affair with a woman from NY, and she rang the phone during dinner. Mrs Daisy Buchanan is really sad that her housband is having an affair, and turns to Nick, her cousin which she states; "she doesn't really know"?

What do you think will happen between the Buchanans?

At the end of chapter 1, Nick (narrator) reflects over the dinner party at Tom and Daisy Buckanan. He is not surprised about fact that Tom has “another lady” in New York, and that he is keeping it from his wife Daisy. Forward in the text Tom and Nick goes to the Valley, in the Valley they visit “Repairs – George B. Wilson” and he turns out to be the husband of Tom´s other lady, Myrtle Wilson. George Wilson is unaware of the affair, and it´s clearly that Nick feels uncomfortable. Myrtle accompanies Tom and Nick to New York City, for a visit. In New York, Tom buys Myrtle a dog, and they go visit Myrtles sister who lives in the city. Clearly Nick doesn´t want to go, but he ends up going anyway.
 * Anniken - summary/question p. 21 - 30**

Question: Do you think George Wilson will find out about the affair?

At Myrtle's appartment in New York Nick gets drunk for the second time in his life. Myrtle calls her friend Mr McKee, his wife and her sister Catherine over. Catherin talks to Nick about his neighbour, Gatsby, she tells him that she is afraid of him, and that she would hate to have him get anything on her. Catherine also tells him that neither Tom or Myrtle can stand the person they're merried to. She also says that its because of Daisy that Tom and Myrtle can't be together, because she is catholic and doesnt believe in divorce. Nick was shocked at the elaborateness of that lie. After a while Tom and Myrtle starts arguing because she was mentioned Daisy's name, Myrtle goes into some kind of psyco state and starts screaming and repeating Daisy's name. Thats when Tom hits her with his open heands and breaks her nose. A dramatic situation unfolds when the women starts scolding Tom and consoling Myrtle. In an atempt to get away from all the drama, Mr Mckee takes Nick with him an leave. Mckee invited Nick to lunch some day and Nick agrees. Then before nick gets to the train station to get home, we get to read about nick standing beside Mckee's bed while he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear. Question: Was Mr Mckee just too drunk and Nick helped him to bed... or did something else happen?
 * Ali - summary/question p. 31 - 40**

Guro - summary/question p. 41 – 50 Mikkel - summary/question p. 51 – 60

Nick Carraway tells about Jordan Baker, how he lost sight of her, but in the midsummer found her again. He says that he first felt flattered to go out with her, because everyone knew her name. However he got to know her better, and says the he feels a tender curiosity. While he is getting to know her better, he finds out that she instinctively avoids clever, shrewd men. The reason for that is because when they’re too clever, she can’t trick them. Therefore she seems to be very a very dishonest women, and he, on the other hand is one of the few honest people he knows. Even though she avoids clever men and is dishonest, Nick really likes her and enjoys being in her company. Later Nick tells about a timetable where he has written down the names of those who came to Gatsby’s house that summer. He mentions a lot of them, and says something about them as well. At 9 o’clock one morning late in July, Gatsby comes in a gorgeous car outside Nick's house. They go out for lunch, and Gatsby asks Nick what his opinion about him is. Gatsby doesn’t want Nick to get a wrong impression of him, and therefore he starts to tell about his past. He mentions that he was very depressed, because of a very sad thing that happened to him a long time ago.
 * Kristine - summary/question p. 61 – 70**

Question: Do you think Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway will become good friends?

Jay Gatsby tells Nick Carraway that there is something he does not know about him. In addition, Jordan Baker is the one that is going to share the secret with Carraway. But it was not his intentions to talk with Jordan about Gatsby. He thinks that Gatsby wants him to do him a favor. When the two guys go out for lunch Carraway meets Wolfsheim, one of Gatsby’s friends. He is the one that fixed the world championship in 1919. He tells a story about a Café called “the old Metropol”, a place where executions found place back in time. Carraway and Wolfsheim are talking about Gatsby as well, and Wolfsheim thinks Gatsby is a wonderful man. They meet Tom Buchanan at the café too, but in the middle of the conversation Gatsby is suddenly gone. Later on, the narrator takes us back in time, the year is 1917. A story about Daisy, in Jordan’s point of view is being told. Daisy was popular and kind, and it seems like she had something going on with Jay Gatsby. Nevertheless, Jordan married Tom Buchanan. But right before their wedding she had a depression and began to cry.
 * Kristina - summary/question p. 71 – 80**

Question: Why do you think Jay Gatsby left the conversation silently with Carraway and Buchanan?

Trygve - summary/question p. 81 – 90. Daniel - summary/question p. 91 – 100 Simen - summary/question p. 101 – 110 Lene - summary/question p. 111 – 119 Karoline - summary/question p. 120 – 130 Jonas - summary/question p. 131 – 140 Silje - summary/question p. 141 – 150 Erlend - summary/question p. 151 – 160. Andreas - summary/question p. 161 – 170 Elise - summary/question p. 171 – 180 Maria - summary/question. 181 – 192