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This video summarizes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby goes from a rich party guy in love with a married woman to dead. What happens in between? Well, decadence, bootlegging, a lot of girl drama for a start. But hey, that’s the Roaring Twenties.
- Themes / Lies and Deceit
- Themes / Visions of America
- Themes / Religion
- Themes / Gender
- Themes / Isolation
- Themes / Wealth
- Themes / Mortality
- Themes / Marriage
- Themes / Dissatisfaction
- Themes / Society and Class
- Form / Novel
- Themes / Compassion and Forgiveness
- Themes / Education
- Themes / Love
- Themes / Memory and the Past
Transcript
- 00:01
The Great Gatsby: A Madcap Recap, a la Shmoop. This is Nick.
- 00:11
Nick is a Wall Street newb who lives in a tiny house next to Party Central.
- 00:17
This is Gatsby, the mysterious owner of Party Central. He tells Nick a whopper about his
- 00:23
tragic, privileged past.
- 00:28
Nick is suspicious but, hey, look, hot girls in the pool!
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- 00:34
This is Jordan. Nick and Jordan are kind of a thing.
- 00:40
Jordan reveals that Gatsby would really, really, really, really like to see his pre-war girlfriend
- 00:46
again and could Nick do a bro a solid and make that happen?
- 00:53
This is Daisy. Daisy is Nick's cousin. She's also the flame in Gatsby's heart...
- 00:59
...the twinkle in his eye...
- 01:00
...the spring in his step.
- 01:02
Bummer she threw over Gatsby and married Tom, the womanizing jerk.
- 01:14
Nick arranges the meet-and-greet between Gatsby and Daisy. It appears to go well...
- 01:18
...but Tom senses something amiss.
- 01:27
This leads to a showdown at the Plaza Hotel...
- 01:30
...where Daisy wishy-washes over Gatsby, and Tom reveals that Gatsby got rich off of bootlegging.
- 01:37
Gatsby has a sad. Daisy proceeds to run over Tom's not-so-secret
- 01:48
girlfriend, Myrtle, in Gatsby's car. Gatsby's willing to take the heat in the name of lurve.
- 02:02
Poor decision-making there, Gatsby. Dead Myrtle's husband shows up at Gatsby's house and takes
- 02:11
out the man he thinks killed his wife. Saddest. Funeral. Ever.
- 02:21
None of the millions of people who went to Gatsby's parties come.
- 02:24
It's just Nick, Gatsby's dad, and a random dude who once admired Gatsby's library.
- 02:37
There's one more shocking revelation to get through: it was Tom who told dead Myrtle's
- 02:42
husband that Gatsby killed Myrtle.
- 02:47
Tom is such a jerk. Nick decides he's had enough of the East Coast...
- 02:54
...so he packs his bags to return to the Midwest...
- 02:56
...but not before stopping to remember Gatsby, the man driven by desires and dreams.
- 03:02
And that... is your madcap recap.
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