Protagonists and Antagonists of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"

Protagonists:

• Jay Gatsby
  
• Nick Carraway

Anagonists:

• Tom Buchanan
  
• Gatsby's Dream

Guide Mentors:

• Nick Carraway
  
• Dan Cody

Foil:

• Daisy Buchanan
  
• Jordan Baker
  
• Tom Buchanan
  
• George Wilson
  
• Myrtle Wilson

Blurb
Day and night Jay Gatsby's mansion on West egg buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, although no one knows what for. Beaneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret longing that can never be fulfilled.

In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a praticular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald re-creates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.

Story Summary[www.cliffsnotes.com]
The Movie[www.the-great-gatsby-movie.co.uk]