I. He uses his money to buy a mansion in West Egg, Long Island. He has once had a romantic liaison with Daisy Buchanan, now married to East Egger Tom Buchanan. Nick Carraway is temporarily living nearby and is both Daisy's cousin and Gatsby's neighbor, so he is able to observe all that takes place and reports on it in this novel, told entirely from his point of view. Other pairings also take place in the novel--Nick has a relationship with Jordan Baker, a golf champion and friend to Daisy, and Tom Buchanan has an affair with Myrtle Wilson, the wife of a local garage owner. Tom knows what the others do not, the source of Gatsby's wealth, a matter of some speculation until Tom reveals it to them and so destroys Gatsby's dream. Yet, he is more of a gentleman than any of the East Eggers, and when he has the opportunity to help Daisy by pretending he was driving the hit-and-run car that kills Myrtle and not Daisy, he does so.
A bald retelling of the plot does not give the flavor of this work, which is structured on a number of ambiguities and deve
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