The Great Gatsby is a story told by a Midwesterner named Nick Carraway who rents a small house in West Egg on Long Island. His house is nearby Jay Gatsby’s vast mansion. On the other hand, his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom Buchanan, an acquaintance of Nick’s from Yale, live in a more fashionable East Egg. After attending one of Gatsby’s famous parties, Nick becomes curious about him. Nick soon discovers that Gatsby is in love with Daisy. Once, Tom takes Nick for a day around the city, where Nick learns that Tom has a kept woman named Myrtle, wife of George Wilson, who is a mechanic by profession.
During one of the parties, Gatsby gets to know Jordan Baker, a professional golfer, through whom he sends a message to Nick insisting to arrange a meeting between him and Daisy. Nick learns that Gatsby and Daisy had once been in love, but couldn’t marry Daisy as he was not very well off and left for the war. Consequently, Daisy married Tom as they were both from the same class. Later, James Gatz deserted his old identity, becoming Jay Gatsby and
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Gatsby and Daisy begin to see each other secretly with some regularity. Nick and Gatsby also become close, as Nick is one of the only people who continue to support Gatsby regardless of the countless rumors that move around the man. Tom eventually confronts Gatsby in Manhattan about the affair, and both of them argue at length about whom that Daisy actually loves. Daisy claims to love both of them, but she decides to return to Long Island with Gatsby, not her husband. Daisy drives Gatsby’s car, but she accidentally kills a woman on the side of the road and then speeds off. It turns out that this woman is Tom’s girlfriend Myrtle, who had only run out to see the car because she thought it was Tom’s. Gatsby confesses that he would take the blame of this