Fool

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Adaptation of the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

It was the summer of 1926, a man named Jack Smith was throwing a party at his house, not just a party but a huge celebration. All sorts of people of all ages may come from children, elderly people, elite, and non-elites. For no reason whatsoever Smith throws this magnificent grand party every year. Some say he's just wasting his money because he's dying, and he doesn't have any relatives left to leave all his money to. Others are saying he just liked people's attention. All those assumptions but no one really knows the answer behind why he threw big parties every summer.

Smith is clearly an elite. According to the papers he's one of the youngest rich businessmen. Smith used to call people in his own way, he called everyone "old sport." People only knew him as the "kind man who threw the biggest party of the century every summer". But no one really knew who he really is.

While everyone in his estate is relaxing and celebrating like it is their last day, Smith is holding his staff at the end of the pier, staring at the red light flashing across the sea between his property and the Johnson's. He was about to return when he saw someone in the next door neighborhood which has been empty for a while. The man appears to be just moving in.

Smith was surprised when he saw the love of her life with her new lover, they both look so happy one with the other. He said, "He must be her fiancé. Lily Simons came from a wealthy family but unfortunately, they were getting bankrupt and the only way to save their company is for her to marry a rich businessman, which is Tim Bennett. She and her fiancé Tim lives right next to Smith's, it is their port with the red blinking light across the sea that Smith went out to see every night.

Anger rises from Smith when he saw the two, but he knows what scene he's going to make if he's gone there and punched the guy in his face, and it could scare Lily, his ex-lover. All he could do was to go back in the mansion. Smith had a man spied on Lily and the guy she's with and discovered that Ralph is Lily's cousin, and Lily just helped her move in.
Smith had an idea for him to get close to Lily, he will invite Ralph to his party and tell him everything about their cut love story. The day came and Smith was waiting for Ralph, well he'd been sure Ralph would come.

Smith spoke to Bella, a woman he paid her for talking to Ralph about Lily. Ralph came along on Lily's side with his in laws as planned. Ralph was used to this kind of celebration but was amused when he saw elitist people get wasted at the party, he didn't know it was possible for them to get wasted at such a public place. Holding his staff, Smith went to Ralph to welcome him into his party. The woman who Smith paid for, Bella, came to them once he had signaled her.

Smith introduced them one to another and excused himself when he was told something by his butler.
Bella and Ralph had to talk; she told Ralph a story about the cousin of Ralph, Smith and his ex-lover Lily.
He learned that the extravagant lifestyle of Smith and the wild parties are merely an attempt to impress Lily. Bella also informs Ralph about the relationship between Lily and Tim: Bella tells him Tim has an affair with Mary Brooke who lives in the ashes valley, a dark industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City.

Smith now wants Ralph to arrange a reunion between him and Lily, but he is afraid that if she knows he still loves her, she will refuse to see him. Ralph invites Lily to have tea at home, without telling her Smith's going to be there too. Smith and Lily are reestablishing their connection after an initially awkward reunion. They rekindled their relationship and started an affair.

Not long after that discovery, Tim invited Ralph in a small party of his friend in New York. Ralph then learns that the "friend" Tim was talking about is his love affair named Mary Brooke who lives in the ashes valley, a dark industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Mary begins mocking Tim about Lily at a vulgar, cheap party in the apartment Tom keeps for the affair, and Tim responds by slapping her hard. They were heading back to East Egg, Ralph can't help but to feel like he's torn between Lily and Tim. Lily is dealing with Smith while Tim is having an affair with Mary.

It wasn't long enough when Tim found out about Smith and Lily's affair. Even though Tim is unfaithful to his fiancé, he is deeply saddened by the idea that his wife sleeps with a man other than himself. Tim went out angrily holding his rifle. Lily, Smith, and Ralph were enjoying the music playing in the organ at Smith's mansion when Tim aimed at Smith with his gun, and shot him at his chest. Ralph and Lily screamed and went up to the blood-covered Smith, now lying on the floor. Tim forced to withdraw Lily from Smith and dragged her out of the mansion.
"I owe you alot, old sport." Smith said, "She left didn't she? Dammit, again?" Ralph went around and called the ambulance for help, but it was too late. After a few days, Ralph received a news that Lily and Ralph continued with their wedding and moved on to Greece for good.

Ralph staged a small funeral for Smith and moved back to the Midwest to escape the disgust he feels for the people around Smith's life as well as the emptiness and immorality of life among the wealthy on the East Coast. Ralph reflects that just as money and dishonesty corrupted Smith's dream of Lily, the American dream of happiness and individual freedom has crumbled into the mere pursuit of wealth. Although the power of Smith to transform his dreams into reality makes him "great," but his belief that Lily will choose him over Tim has made him a total fool.