The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a classic American novel about an obsessed man named Jay Gatsby who will do anything to be reunited with the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan. The book is told through the point of view of Nick Caraway, Daisy's cousin once removed, who rented a little cottage in West Egg, Long Island across the bay from Daisy's home. Nick was Jay Gatsby's neighbor. Tom Buchanan is Daisy's …showed first 75 words of 1681 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1681 total…she didn’t even attend his funeral. She went on vacation in Europe while her new house was being built. The one woman Jay Gatsby had spent his entire adult life chasing and madly in love with was the reason that he was shot in the back while waiting for her to come. The shot out of Wilson's gun was the knife Daisy had stabbed into the back of Gatsby when she led him on.