Pleasure reading

                

                                         Part 1

      

   

   Nick Carraway was a very tolerant, and had a tendency to reserve judgment. Carraway came from a prominent Midwestern family and graduated from Yale. Nick fought in World War I; after the war, he went through a period of restlessness. In the summer of 1922, Carraway arrived in New York in order to learn the bond business and was living in a part of Long Island known as West Egg. West Egg was the home to the nouveau riche. They are people who had recently made money and lacked an established social position.

   Nick's house was next door to Gatsby's enormous, vulgar Gothic mansion. Sometime later Carraway had dinner with Daisy, his second cousin, and her husband, Tom Buchanan, whom he went to college with. A friend of Daisy's was also in attendance whose name was Jordan Baker. When Tom left the company to take the call, Nick got to know that Tom's phone call was from his lover in New York. After this confusing situation he went home. On the way to his home Carraway saw a handsome young man, Jay Gatsby, standing on his wide lawn, with his arms stretched out to the sea.

    The second chapter began with the description of the valley of ashes, a dismal, barren wasteland halfway between West Egg and New York. Tom Buchanan took Nick to George Wilson's garage, which lied at the edge of the valley of ashes. Wilson's wife, Myrtle, was the woman with whom Tom had been having an affair. Tom forced both Myrtle and Nick to accompany him to the city. There, in the flat they had a shrill, vulgar party with Myrtle's sister, Catherine, and a repulsive couple named McKee. The group gossiped about Jay Gatsby: Catherine claimed that he was somehow related to Kaiser Wilhelm, the much-despised ruler of Germany during World War I.