...riche people ho lack established social connections, and tend to vulgarly flaunt their ealth. Like Nick, Tom Buchanan graduated from Yale, and comes from a privileged Midestern family. Tom is a former football player, a brutal bully obsessed ith the preservation of class boundaries. Daisy, by contrast, is an almost ghostlike young oman ho affects an air of sophisticated boredom. At the Buchananss, Nick meets Jordan Baker, a beautiful, if boyish, young oman ith a cold and cynical manner. The to ill later become romantically involved. Jordan tells Nick that Tom has been having an affair ith Myrtle ilson, a oman ho lives in the valley of ashes an industrial asteland outside of Ne York City. After visiting Tom and Daisy, Nick goes home to est Egg there, he sees Gatsby gazing at a mysterious green light across the bay. Gatsby stretches his arms out toard the light, as though to catch and hold it. Tom Buchanan takes Nick into Ne York, and on the ay they stop at the garage oned by George ilson the husband of Myrtle, ith hom Tom has been having an affair. Tom tells Myrtle to join them later in the city. Nearby, on an enormous billboard, a pair of bespectacled blue eyes stares don at the barren landscape. These eyes called the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg once served as an advertisement no, they brood over all that happens in the valley of ashes. In the city, Tom takes Nick and Myrtle to the apartment in Morningside Heights that he keeps for his affair. There, they have a lurid party ith Myrtles sister, Catherine, and an abrasive couple named McKee. They gossip about Gatsby Catherine says that he is someho related to Kaiser ilhelm, the much-despised ruler of Germany during orld ar I. The more she drinks, the more aggressive Myrtle becomes she begins taunting Tom about Daisy, and he reacts by breaking her nose. The party, unsurprisingly, comes to an abrupt end. Nick Carraay attends a party at Gatsbys mansion, here he runs in to Jordan Baker. At the party, fe of the attendees kno Gatsby even feer ere formally invited. Before the party, Nick himself had never met Gatsby he is a strikingly handsome, slightly dandified young man ho affects an English accent. Gatsby asks to speak to Jordan Baker alone after talking ith Gatsby for quite a long time, she tells Nick that she has learned some remarkable nes. She cannot yet share it ith him, hoever. Some time later, Gatsby visits Nicks home and invites him to lunch. At this point in the novel, Gatsbys origins are unclear. He claims to come from a ealthy San Francisco family, and says that he as educated at Oxford after serving in the Great ar during hich he received a number of decorations. Hoever, a certain diffidence in his manner indicates that he may be lying to Nick. At lunch, Gatsby introduces Nick to his business associate, Meyer olfsheim. olfhsheim is a notorious criminal many believe that he is responsible for fixing the 1919 orld Series. Gatsby mysteriously avoids the Buchanans. Later, Jordan Baker explains the reason for Gatsbys anxiety he had been in love ith Daisy Buchanan hen they met in Louisville before the ar Jordan subtly intimates that he is still in love ith her, and she ith him. Gatsby has Nick arrange a meeting beteen him and Daisy. Gatsby has meticulously planned their meeting he gives Daisy a carefully-rehearsed tour of his mansion, and is desperate to exhibit his ealth and possessions. Gatsby is ooden and mannered during this initial meeting his dearest dreams have been of this moment, and so the actual reunion as bound to disappoint. Despite this, the love beteen Gatsby and Daisy is revived, and the to begin an affair. Eventually, Nick learns the true story of Gatsbys past. He as born James Gatz in North Dakota, but had his name legally changed at the age of seventeen. The gold baron Dan Cody served as Gatsbys mentor until his death. Though Gatsby inherited nothing of Codys fortune, it as from him that Gatsby as first introduced to orld of ealth, poer, and privilege. hile out horseback riding, Tom Buchanan happens upon Gatsbys mansion. There he meets both Nick and Gatsby, to hom he takes an immediate dislike. To Tom, Gatsby is part of the ne rich, and thus poses a danger to the old order that Tom holds dear. Despite this, he accompanies Daisy to Gatsbys next party there, he is exceedingly rude and condescending toard Gatsby. Nick realizes that Gatsby ants Daisy to renounce her husband and her marriage in this ay, they can recover the years they have lost since first they parted. This is Gatsbys great fla his great love of Daisy is a kind of orship for him, she is ideal, and this he fails to see her flas. He believes that he can undo the past, and forgets that Daisys essentially small-minded and coardly nature as hat initially caused their separation. After his reunion ith Daisy, Gatsby ceases to thro his elaborate parties. The only reason he thre such parties as the chance that Daisy or someone ho kne her might attend. Daisy invites Gatsby, Nick and Jordan to lunch at her house. In an attempt to make Tom jealous, and to exact revenge for his affair, Daisy is highly indiscreet in her relation to Gatsby. She even tells Gatsby that she loves him hile Tom is in earshot. Though Tom is himself having an affair, he is furious at the thought that his ife could be unfaithful to him. He forces the group to drive into the city there, in a suite at the Plaza Hotel, Tom and Gatsby have a bitter confrontation. Tom denounces Gatsby for his lo birth, and reveals to Daisy that Gatsbys fortune has been made through illegal activities. Daisys real allegiance is to Tom hen Gatsby begs her to say that she does not love her husband, she refuses him. Tom permits Gatsby to drive Daisy back to East Egg in this ay, he displays his contempt for Gatsby, as ell as his faith in his ifes complete subjection to him, Tom. On the trip back to East Egg, Gatsby allos Daisy to drive in order to calm her ragged nerves. Passing ilsons garage, Daisy serves to avoid another car and ends up hitting Myrtle she is killed instantly. Nick advises Gatsby to leave ton until the situation calms. Gatsby, hoever, refuses to leave he remains in order to ensure that Daisy is safe. George ilson, driven nearly mad by the death of his ife, is desperate to find her killer Tom Buchanan tells him that Gatsby as the driver of the fatal car. ilson ho has decided that the driver of the car must also have been Myrtles lover shoots Gatsby before committing suicide himself. After the murder, the Buchanans leave ton to distance themselves from the violence for hich they are responsible. Nick is left to organize Gatsbys funeral, but finds that fe people cared for Gatsby. Only Meyer olfsheim shos a modicum of grief, and fe people attend the funeral. Nick seeks out Gatsbys father, Henry Gatz, and brings him to Ne York for the funeral. From Henry, Nick learns the full scope of Gatsbys visions of greatness and his dreams of self-improvement. Thoroughly disgusted ith life in N...
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