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The Movie  The Great Gatsby The main actors: Tobey Maguire -------- Nick(author) Carey Mulligan ------- Daisy(heroine) Leonardo DiCaprio-------Gatsby(hero) Joel Edgerton---------Tom(the husband of herione) The summary of the movie The Great Gatsby mainly tells of Gatsby’s quixotic passion for Daisy. They meet five years ago, when Daisy is a legendary young beauty and Gatsby a poor officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas. Five years later, Nick is a young Mid-westerner who sells bonds in New York. He lives at West Egg, which is separated from the city His neighbor is Jay Gatsby, who is a mysterious man, whose mansion and fabulous entertainments are financed by bootlegging and other criminal activities. When Gatsby was a poor army officer, he had fallen in love with Daisy, Nick’s beautiful cousin, but later Daisy married Tom, who is wealthy. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means available to him with a view to regaining Daisy’s love. With huge wealth accumulated, Gatsby buys mansion across Long Island from Daisy’s noble East Egg address. Throws generous parties, and waits for Daisy to appear. When she does, events carries up with all the tragic inevitability of a Greed dream. Then with the help of Nick Gatsby tries to win Daisy back with extravagant devotion. Meanwhile Daisy’s husband takes another woman Wilson, as his mistress.when Myrtle runs out on the highway, and accidently hit by Daisy, who drives the car at that moment. Gatsby tries to help Daisy, and Tom tells Wilson that it was Gatsby who kills his wife. Wilson shoots Gatsby. At the end of the story, Nick thinks over Gatsby’s bream and decides to go back home to the West. * THE GREAT GATSBY By Jason contents NO.1 About The Author NO.2 Background NO.3 The Movie The Author’s Life Born on Sep24th,1896 in a rich business family And developed his interests in writing in middle school time Fell in love with Zelda in 1918 marri