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This video summarizes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby goes from a rich party guy in love with a married woman to dead. What happens in between? Well, decadence, bootlegging, a lot of girl drama for a start. But hey, that’s the Roaring Twenties.

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00:01
The Great Gatsby: A Madcap Recap, a la Shmoop. This is Nick.
00:11
Nick is a Wall Street newb who lives in a tiny house next to Party Central.
00:17
This is Gatsby, the mysterious owner of Party Central. He tells Nick a whopper about his
00:23
tragic, privileged past.
00:28
Nick is suspicious but, hey, look, hot girls in the pool!

00:34
This is Jordan. Nick and Jordan are kind of a thing.
00:40
Jordan reveals that Gatsby would really, really, really, really like to see his pre-war girlfriend
00:46
again and could Nick do a bro a solid and make that happen?
00:53
This is Daisy. Daisy is Nick's cousin. She's also the flame in Gatsby's heart...
00:59
...the twinkle in his eye...
01:00
...the spring in his step.
01:02
Bummer she threw over Gatsby and married Tom, the womanizing jerk.
01:14
Nick arranges the meet-and-greet between Gatsby and Daisy. It appears to go well...
01:18
...but Tom senses something amiss.
01:27
This leads to a showdown at the Plaza Hotel...
01:30
...where Daisy wishy-washes over Gatsby, and Tom reveals that Gatsby got rich off of bootlegging.
01:37
Gatsby has a sad. Daisy proceeds to run over Tom's not-so-secret
01:48
girlfriend, Myrtle, in Gatsby's car. Gatsby's willing to take the heat in the name of lurve.
02:02
Poor decision-making there, Gatsby. Dead Myrtle's husband shows up at Gatsby's house and takes
02:11
out the man he thinks killed his wife. Saddest. Funeral. Ever.
02:21
None of the millions of people who went to Gatsby's parties come.
02:24
It's just Nick, Gatsby's dad, and a random dude who once admired Gatsby's library.
02:37
There's one more shocking revelation to get through: it was Tom who told dead Myrtle's
02:42
husband that Gatsby killed Myrtle.
02:47
Tom is such a jerk. Nick decides he's had enough of the East Coast...
02:54
...so he packs his bags to return to the Midwest...
02:56
...but not before stopping to remember Gatsby, the man driven by desires and dreams.
03:02
And that... is your madcap recap.
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