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Example ("The Great Gatsby"): The narrator, a Yale graduate, moves to New York to learn the bond business. He meets Gatsby, a man from a wealthy Midwest family
by djoldman 5y ago
Example ("The Great Gatsby"):
The narrator, a Yale graduate, moves to New York to learn the bond business. He meets Gatsby, a man from a wealthy Midwest family who attended Oxford. Gatsby invites the narrator to lunch and shows him his war medals.
Gatsby wants Daisy to tell Tom she never loved him and wants to go back to Louisville to get married as they had planned 5 years ago.
Mrs. Wilson is killed by a car that doesn't stop. Gatsby says he tried to stop Daisy from driving, but she couldn't, so he pulled on the emergency brake.
After two years, Nick remembers the police and photographers at Gatsby's house after his death.
On the last night, Nick looks at Gatsby's house one last time.
- tschwimmer 5y agoThis is truly an awful summary. It is factually correct but completely misses any nuance or description of themes that make The Great Gatsby a notable work. I doubt this has any value for what is considered to be literature, and probably isn't very useful for most of the rest of fiction either. I'd be curious to see this be used on dense non-fiction to extract the salient points (I'm imagining this being run on Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century), but based on this sample I'm not optimistic.
- timgilbert 5y agoThat's... kind of a rubbish summary, but I'm not sure what I'd want a ~700-word summary of The Great Gatsby to look like.
- LeonardoTolstoy 5y agoHonestly, I think you could do worse than the Wikipedia summary. That is maybe a bit too long (I can't remember the Wikipedia guidelines for books) it looks longer than 700 words. But from there I think you could fashion a solid 700 word summary of the book without too much trouble.