Hana Hančíková

 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

 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

 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 together five years and have a daughter

 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

 Daisy drives at home from 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 golfer and lives with Daisy and Tom, but she and Nick have got spats and they don't stay together

 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

 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 love and I think Fitzgerald could take an example from his own books

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

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

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