Nick also attends one of Gatsby's extravagant Saturday night parties. At the party, Myrtle gets drunk and makes fun of Daisy. On the way, Tom picks up his mistress, Myrtle Wilson, the wife of George Wilson, the owner of an auto shop an industrial area between West Egg and New York City called the Valley of Ashes. Nick looks out across the water, but sees only a green light blinking at the end of a dock on the far shore.Ī few days later, Tom invites Nick to a party in New York City. Upon returning home from dinner, Nick sees his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby holding out his arms toward the Long Island Sound. Jordan tells Nick that Tom is having an affair.

There, he meets Jordan Baker, a beautiful and cynical professional golfer. One night Nick drives to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin, Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan, a classmate of Nick's at Yale. Nick graduated from Yale and has connections in East Egg, a town where the people with social connections and 'old' money live.

Nick rents a house in West Egg, a suburb of New York on Long Island full of the 'new rich' who have made their fortunes too recently to have built strong social connections. In the summer of 1922, Nick Carraway moves from Minnesota to work as a bond salesman in New York.

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