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- Jay Gatsby. The titular “Great Gatsby,” a selfmade man who is desparate to be seen as part of the social elite and whose ill-gotten wealth is always on display through his lavish lifestyle.
- Nick Carraway. The first-person narrator, an observant Yale graduate who moves from the Midwest to NYC to be a bond salesman and quickly falls in with Tom, Daisy, Jordan, and Jay.
- Daisy Buchanan. A passive and increasingly unhappy woman married to Tom Buchanan. She was once in love with Gatsby, and reconnects with him as a way to escape her sense of purposelessness and hopelessnes.
- Tom Buchanan. A wealthy old classmate of Nick’s, who is married to Daisy and is cheating on her with Myrtle Wilson. He uses his physical and social power to bully those around him, but is the only one who sees through Gatsby's fake "Oxford man" persona.
Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn, CMG, LL.D, FRS, FGS (26 July 1824 – 19 October 1902) was a British geologist and public servant, director of the Geological Survey of Victoria from 1852 to 1869, director of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) from 1869 to 1894, and President of the Royal Society of Canada from 1895 to 1896.
Appointed on 1 April 1845 as assistant geologist to the field staff of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Selwyn joined a pioneering group of stratigraphers assigned to outline the country’s geological structures.
Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn (1824-1902), geologist, was born on 28 July 1824 at Kilmington, Somerset, England, son of Rev. Townshend Selwyn, canon of Gloucester Cathedral, and his wife Charlotte Sophia, daughter of Lord George Murray, bishop of St David's, Wales.
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Jan 8, 2024 · Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn was born at Kilmington, Somerset. Eng., July 28, 1824, being the son of the late Rev.Townshend Selwyn, Canon of Gloucester Cathedral, and a great grandson of the Fourth Duke of Athol.
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- July 26, 1824
- Matilda Charlotte Selwyn
- October 19, 1902
Jan 15, 2019 · In fact, several characters are based on people Fitzgerald encountered, from a famous bootlegger to his own ex-girlfriend. Ultimately, the novel's characters paint a complex portrait of an amoral American society, drunk on its own prosperity.
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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway 's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan .
