Summarizer

[Matt]

In the beginning of the book, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway had just arrived in New York in the summer of 1922, where he moved to work in the bond business. He rented a house on a part of Long Island called West Egg, where the newly rich people live. His next door neighbor is Gatsby. One night, he drives out to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan, a former member of Nick’s social club at Yale. After dinner, when Nick arrives home, he sees Gatsby for the first time.Nick and Tom then go to the Valley of Ashes with Myrtle.

[Feliks]

Jay Gatsby reminisces with Nick about his childhood friend, Jim, whom he once rafted the Mississippi with.