In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald analyzes three main characters, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan and Nick Carraway. The Great Gatsby is a story about discovering who people really are and how far they will go to keep their secrets from being revealed to everyone. The Great Gatsby is like a story of our times, we have rich and poor cities, we have people who cheat on their spouses and finally, we have racism towards different cultures and races (Schreier). Many ironic events occur throughout the book. For example, Gatsby and Nick become friends, Tom and Myrtle being secret lovers, Daisy and Gatsby having an affair, and finally Daisy running over Myrtle in Gatsby's (Coleman) car. Fitzgerald deliberately wrote this book to tell about lovers who were not meant to be together and how they overcame that and fell in love with each other (Shain). He also wrote the book on American society (Tolmatchoff). In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald analyzes the character of Jay Gatsby. Formerly known as James Gatz (goldsmith). Gatsby throws huge, lavish parties that everyone wants to attend (Murray). He has his servants pick up his guests in his Rolls-Royce on weekends, he has caterers, bright, fancy lights, he has an extravagant bar with all kinds of gins and liqueurs, and he has a voluminous orchestra (45-46). In reality, his parties aren't that extravagant because everyone is always extremely drunk and the parties are usually very boring to say the least (Murray). Not everyone who attended Gatsby's parties was invited; most of the time people heard about the party and showed up randomly (47). Gatsby invited Nick Carraway to one of his parties and that is how they first met and became friends (47)....... middle of paper...... 967): 18-28. Rep. at the Literary Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 2014. Gale Library Resources. Internet. January 14, 2014. Farrant Bevilacqua, Winifred. "'...En ecstatico acuerdo': Gatsby invented by Nick." Atlantis, journal of the Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos 32.1 (2010): 45+. Gale Literary Resources. Internet. January 14, 2014. Schreier, Benjamin. “Second Act of Desire: “Race” and the Cynical Americanism of The Great Gatsby. » Twentieth Century Literature 53.2 (Summer 2007): 153-181. Rep. in 20th century literary criticism. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. Flight. 280. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Gale Library Resources. Internet. January 14, 2014. Coleman, Carter. “Ride on a ghost train, Gatsby style.” Los Angeles Times Book Review (June 9, 1996): 10. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Gale Library Resources. Internet. January 14. 2014.