The book begins with narrator Nick Carraway. He is originally from Minnesota and in 1992 he moved to New York that summer. He begins by giving us the advice his father gave him to not make fun of people no matter what. Daisy Buchanan is Nick's cousin; she is married to Tom Buchanan. Jordan Baker is Daisy's close friend. Daisy Baker falls in love with Nick and he loves her back. He went to New York to study the bond industry. Nick lives in West Egg, but his cousin Daisy lives in East Egg, Long Island, New York. East Egg is where upper class people live, unlike West Egg. Nick also visits his cousin Daisy in East Egg to have dinner with her husband. Her husband was Nick's friend from the lectures they had together at Yale. When he goes to their house, he meets Jordan Baker there. Jordan tells Nick about Daisy and Tom's wedding. Jordan tells him that Tom is having an affair with another woman, Myrtle Wilson. She lives in the Valley of Ashes, a gray industrial dump between West Egg and New York. Nick goes to New York with Tom and Myrtle for an offensive, rude and loud apartment party. This apartment is also where Tom and Myrtle share together. Later, Tom breaks Myrtle's nose because she makes fun of Daisy. This shows us that Tom is an aggressive and angry man. Later that day, Nick receives a surprise invitation to one of Gatsby's famous parties. When he goes there he meets Jordan Baker at the party, then after a while they meet Gatsby. Gatsby is a young man who has an English accent, an extraordinary and amazing smile, and he uses the word "old sport" a lot and calls everyone that. Jordan talks to Nick and explains everything about Gatsby. Gatsby spends more time writing... Nick organizes a small funeral for Gatsby and Daisy doesn't attend. He took responsibility for her, and he died because of her, he sacrificed himself for her. She and Tom decide to travel and take off. Nick also breaks up with Jordan and returns to the Midwest because he is tired of these people and hates the people who were close to Gatsby and for the bareness, emptiness and cold heartedness they have of life in the middle of the Midwest. wealthy people from the East Coast. Nick realizes and reveals that Gatsby's dream about Daisy was ruined by money and lack of loyalty, in a dishonest way. Daisy, all she cared about was wealth, she pursued men who had a lot of money. Even though Gatsby has the control, influence, and authority to make his dreams come true for him, this is what Nicks believes makes him a good man. Now Gatsby's dream and the American dream are over..