The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on
Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick
Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's
obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
In spring 1922, Nick Carraway—a Yale alumnus from the Midwest and a World War I
veteran—journeys to New York City to obtain employment as a bond salesman. He
rents a bung ...