There he meets Jordan, a flapper and a golf star, and an intricate web of romances and betrayals begins to unfold. Carraway spends time catching up with his distant cousin Daisy and her industry-baron husband Tom before being invited to one of Gatsby’s wildly lavish weekend parties. He rents a shabby apartment in Long Island next door to a sumptuous mansion: the home of the mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby. Nick Carraway is a young Midwestern man freshly arrived in New York to make his fortune. Long taught as required reading in American schools, critics have consistently held it up alongside Moby Dick, Huck Finn, and To Kill a Mockingbird as perhaps the quintessential Great American Novel. The Great Gatsby is a novel that needs no introduction for a certain generation of American readers.
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