Short summary

Nick Carraway comes to live in West Egg, an unfashionable area near New York populated by the newly rich, where his neighbor is the mysterious Jay Gatsby who throws extravagant parties each week.

He visits his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom and meets Jordan Baker, with whom he starts a relationship. Tom is having an affair with a lower-class woman called Myrtle, and Nick and Tom go to meet her and her friends.

Gatsby invites Nick and Jordan to a party, where he tel...