After several meetings Gatsby asks Nick a favor. Embarrassed, he had a long walk around the bush, in proof of their respectability imposes medal from Montenegro, which was awarded in the war, and their photo Oxford; Finally childish says that his request will present Jordan Baker - Nick met her at a party at Gatsby, and met in the house of his sister Daisy: Jordan was her friend. The request was simple - to invite as a Daisy to his tea to, going supposedly by accident, in a neighbor, Gatsby was able to see her, Jordan said that in the fall of 1917 in Louisville, with their hometown Daisy, Daisy and Gatsby then a young lieutenant, loved each other, but were forced to leave; he was sent to Europe, and it is one and a half years she married Tom Buchanan. But before the wedding dinner thrown in the trash gift to the groom - a pearl necklace for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, Daisy got drunk as a shoemaker, and clutched in one hand and some letter, and the other - a bottle of Sauternes, begged her friend to resign from her name groom. However, it stuck in a cold bath, gave a sniff of ammonia, put on his neck necklace, and she "got married how cute."

The meeting took place; Daisy saw his house (for Gatsby it was very important); festivities at the villa stopped and Gatsby replaced all the servants to others, "who know how to be silent," because Daisy was often at him. Gatsby also met with Tom, who showed an active rejection of himself, his home, his guests and interested in the source of his income, certainly questionable.

Now, it's time for vocabulary! :)

privy

(followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known

NOTES:

Nick is using "privy" as an adjective here but it can also be a noun meaning "a room or building equipped with one or more toilets." With that double meaning, Nick could be seen as making fun of both his own passive nature and the nature of the secrets that were shared with him.

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

feign

make a pretence of

NOTES:

Nick admits to feigning actions and emotions in order to avoid listening to the seemingly fake revelations of others. Another reason he might not have wanted to hear these secrets is that doing so places him in the position of being responsible for someone else's happiness. Fitzgerald includes this admission here to set the readers up for the contrasts in Nick's relationship with Gatsby.

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon--for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

levity

a manner lacking seriousness

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Most of the confidences were unsought--frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostilelevity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon--for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

elation

a feeling of joy and pride

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-windedelations of men.

solemn

characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

I was rather literary in college--one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the "Yale News"--and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man."

fractiousness

the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.

wistfulness

a sadly pensive longing

NOTES:

The last three words were used in descriptions that show Nick's scornful attitude towards Tom Buchanan. Even in describing Tom's wistfulness, Nick adds the adjectives "harsh" and "defiant". By noting that Tom wanted his approval, Nick is suggesting that, back in college, he was the better man, and he is even more so now that is openly disapproving of Tom in his book.

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

We were in the same Senior Society, and while we were never intimate I always had the impression that he approved of me and wanted me to like him with some harsh, defiant wistfulness of his own.

imperceptible

impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

At any rate Miss Baker's lips fluttered, she nodded at me almost imperceptibly and then quickly tipped her head back again--the object she was balancing had obviously tottered a little and given her something of a fright.

reciprocal

concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face.

compel

force somebody to do something

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Before I could reply that he was my neighbor dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.

unobtrusive

not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.

inconsequence

having no important effects or influence

NOTES:

Although details of Daisy and Jordan's "bantering inconsequence" are not given here, examples of it are seen throughout the dialogues that Fitzgerald intentionally creates as the writer and that Nick somehow remembers and repeats as the first-person narrator.

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequencethat was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.

extemporize

perform without preparation

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.

subdued

in a softened tone

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond and Miss Baker leaned forward, unashamed, trying to hear.

sedative

tending to soothe or tranquilize

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedativequestions about her little girl.

libel

a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person

NOTES:

An overheard rumor is not libel; it could be slander, but the rumor is about an event that's supposed to be happy not hurtful. As a Yale graduate who used to write for the college's newspaper, Nick would know the different intents attached to rumor, libel and slander. But he deliberately exaggerates here to be funny and to emphasize that he is not ready for marriage.

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

"That's right," corroborated Tom kindly. "We heard that you were engaged."
"It's libel.

peremptory

offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power

EXAMPLE SENTENCE:

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

Nick wondered his neighbor. Many people said that his name Gatsby. All he knew this is what summer evenings at the villa at the Nick's neighbor was sounds of music; on weekends it "Rolls-Royce" turns into a shuttle bus to New York, carrying a huge amount of visitors, and multi-seat "Ford" runs between the villa and the station. On Mondays eight servants, and specially hired gardener second all day removes traces of destruction.

Soon Nick receives a formal invitation to a party at Mr. Gatsby and is one of the very few guests: there were not expecting an invitation, just come back. No one in the crowd of guests are not familiar with a host of close; not everyone knows his face. His mysterious, romantic figure is intense interest - and the crowd multiplied conjectures: some argue that Gatsby killed a man, others - that he Bootleggers, nephew von Hindenburg and second cousin of the devil, and during the war was a German spy. They also say that he studied at Oxford. In the crowd of his guests, he is lonely, sober and restrained. Society, which enjoyed the hospitality of Gatsby, pay him what did not know about him. Nick meets Gatsby almost by accident: a conversation with some man - they were fellow soldiers - he noticed that his somewhat restrict the visitors unfamiliar with the owner, and receives the answer: "So it's me - Gatsby."

So...when Nick has met with her cousin, Daisy said a great phrase on my opinion...

She said it about her doughter, but everyone know that it about any girl. It's true! This phrase is a century's dictum!

Just once I get acquainted with the hero-narrator Nick Carraway. He belongs to a respectable family of a prosperous small town in the Midwest. In 1915 he graduated from Yale University, and then had fought in Europe; Having returned to his native town, "could not find a place," and in 1922 moved to the east - in New York, to study the loan deal. He settled in the suburbs, on the outskirts of Long Island protrude into the water two completely identical headland, separated by a narrow cove: East Egg and West Egg; in West Egg, between two luxurious villas, and room for oneself a house, which he took off for eighty dollars a month. In the more fashionable East Egg lives his second cousin Daisy. She is married to Tom Buchanan. Tom fabulously rich, he studied at Yale at the same time with Nick, Nick, and even then it was very unsympathetic aggressively flawed demeanor. Tom began to change his wife still in the honeymoon; and now he does not bother to hide their relationship from Nick with Myrtle Wilson, the wife of the owner of a gas station and car repairs, which is located halfway between the West Eggom and New York, where the highway runs very close to the railway, and a quarter of a mile runs beside her. Daisy also knows about her husband's infidelity, it hurts her; from the first visit to them Nick left the impression that Daisy need to run out of the house immediately.

Some about autor of this literary work.

Fransis Scott Fitzgeralld is an american writуer who created great novels and stories, describing so-called american "jazz era" of the 1920s.
Born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, in a wealthy Irish Catholic family. His name, he was in honor of his great-great-grandfather, the author of the text of the national anthem of the USA by Francis Scott Key.
Before the final exams, Fitzgerald went as a volunteer in the army, but in the fighting, he never was.
In 1919, Fitzgerald was demobilized, worked for a while advertising agent in New York. Even during he was in the army, he met Zelda Sayre, comes from a wealthy and respectable family and is considered the main and the most beautiful bride enviable state. That it is associated with all subsequent biography and all creativity Fitzgerald.
Becoming one of the main characters of gossip, Scott and Zelda were living, they say, for show: they enjoyed the fun rich life, which consisted of parties, receptions and trips to European resorts. They constantly "throwing" any eccentricities that made them talk about all the American supreme light: then skating around Manhattan rooftop taxi, bathing in the fountain, the appearance in the nude on the play. For all that their life was also from the constant scandals (often motivated by jealousy) and the inordinate use of alcohol, as he and she.
All this time, Scott also managed to quite a lot of writing for magazines, which brought a very significant income (he was one of the highest paid authors of the then "glossy" magazines).
In 1924, Fitzgerald went to Europe, first to Italy and then to France. While in Paris, he met there with Ernest Hemingway. It was in Paris Fitzgerald finishes and publishes the novel "The Great Gatsby" - a novel that many critics, and indeed Fitzgerald, considered a masterpiece of American literature of the period, the symbol of the "era of jazz." In 1926 he published a collection of short stories "All these sad young people." 

However, the following years of his life Fitzgerald are very heavy. For a living, he wrote for The Saturday Evening Post. His wife Zelda is going through several bouts of obfuscation, since 1925, and gradually goes mad. Treat it fails. Fitzgerald is going through a painful crisis and begins to drink even more.

In October 1939, Fitzgerald began to write the novel about the life of Hollywood - "The Last Tycoon", which was left unfinished. During the three years of living in Hollywood, he also wrote a series of stories and articles, mostly autobiographical, published after his death in the book "Crash." 

Fitzgerald died of a heart attack December 21, 1940 in Hollywood, California, in the home of Sheila Graham.

Of course you can ask me why chose this book?! So... some of my friends read this book and saw film on one. Somebody said that book is the best than film, others disagreed with it. And I had an interest. I saw film and I had a big impression. Next some day after preview I was thoughtful. Aaaand..suddenly I decided to read a book. I hope I won't disappointed. :)

Hello! I'm starting read a new book and I wil tell you about this amazing story from life one younger man :)