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 protect their secrets from being told to everyone. The Great Gatsby is like a story of our time, we have rich cities 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 take place throughout the book. For example, Gatsby and Nick become friends, Tom and Myrtle are secret lovers, also Daisy and Gatsby have an affair and finally Daisy runs over Myrtle in Gatsby's (Coleman) car. Fitzgerald purposely wrote the book to tell about lovers who were not supposed to be together and how they overcame this obstacle 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 Jay Gatsby. Formally 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 catering, bright and fancy lights, he has an extravagant bar with all kinds of gins and spirits, 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 boring to say the least (Murray). Not everyone who attended Gatsby's parties was invited; most of the time people simply heard about the party and then showed up randomly (47). Gatsby invited Nick Carraway to one of his parties and that's how they first met and became friends (47)....... middle of paper......967): 18-28. Rpt. in the Literary Resource Center. Detroit: Gale, 2014. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 14, 2014.Farrant Bevilacqua, Winifred. "'... En estatico acuerdo': Gatsby invented by Nick." Atlantis, magazine of the Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos 32.1 (2010): 45+. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 14, 2014.Schreier, Benjamin. "The Second Act of Desire: 'Race' and the Cynical Americanism of the Great Gatsby." Twentieth Century Literature 53.2 (Summer 2007): 153-181. Rpt. in twentieth-century literary criticism. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. vol. 280. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Literary Resources from Gale. Network. January 14, 2014. Coleman, Carter. "On a ghost train, Gatsby style." Los Angeles Times Book Review (June 9, 1996): 10. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism Select. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 14. 2014.