For The Great Gatsby, how do I write 1-2 paragraphs of summary that include the main events and give details but is to the point?I keep writting...

One way to approach a two-paragraph description of
The Great Gatsby is to use paragraph one to cover from Nick
Carraway's visit to West Egg to see Daisy and Tom Buchanan through to the car accident.
Your sentences will need to be well constructed and cover more than one event each while
also succinctly introducing characters. I'll give one a try: Nick Carraway,
newly moved to the East to study
for a career in finance, goes
from his cottage home in West Egg to visit his cousin, her husband and
their golf-playing friend in wealthy and extravagant East
Egg where he mentions his new neighbor at
whose urging he will later press an
invitation on his cousin Daisy to come visit him and meet
his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, who is a man of questionable
morals and wealth who was once Daisy's beau
before she married Tom
Buchanan.

This one sentence introduces the main characters
and gets you all the way to Gatsby's rendezvous with Daisy at Nick's place. In one more
similar sentence you could move through events that take Nick and Gatsby to the shadow
of the billboard to claim Tom's mistress from her auto-mechanic husband and to their
subsequent drunken misadventures in New York that result in the car accident. Paragraph
two can cover events after the accident that lead to Gatsby's own death and then state
the meaning of the story in a similar fashion as my sample sentence. The highlighted (in
bold) words are the verbs (moved, goes, will),
prepositions (for, in, at, before),
participles (moved),
conjunctions (and), and subordinated
wh-clauses (where, whose, who, who)
that make vast amounts of information available within strict word or paragraph
limits.