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When Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, Long Island, he has no idea that the mansion next to his modest house is home to Jay Gatsy. Soon thereafter, Nick becomes a close confidant to the ostentatiously wealthy wealthy Gatsby and is pulled into his neighbor's regular schedule of riotous parties that draw revelers from the haute monde of New York City. No one knows how Gatsby came by his extravagant wealth - but, then, nobody really seems to care.

Eventually, Nick becomes aware of Gatsby's intense interest in his cousin Daisy Buchanan, whose residence is located directly across the Sound from Gatsby's. When Daisy's brutish husband, Tom, catches wind of Gatsby's designs on Daisy he begins probing into Gatsby's background with dangerous earnestness. "It takes two to make an accident," Daisy's friend Jordan Baker tells Nick, and everyone in Gatsby's immediate sphere appears to be headed for an imminent collision.

First published in 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald's third novel offers a definitive portrait of the opulence and recklessness of the Jazz Age. More significantly, its exploration of the differing values of its characters' social castes - the nouveau riche realm that Gatsby inhabits and the old money heritage from which the Buchanans are descended - provides an illuminating critique of the American Dream and the illusions it fosters. The Great Gatsby is not only Fitzgerald's greatest work - to many, it is THE Great American Novel.