Just once I get acquainted with the hero-narrator Nick Carraway. He belongs to a respectable family of a prosperous small town in the Midwest. In 1915 he graduated from Yale University, and then had fought in Europe; Having returned to his native town, "could not find a place," and in 1922 moved to the east - in New York, to study the loan deal. He settled in the suburbs, on the outskirts of Long Island protrude into the water two completely identical headland, separated by a narrow cove: East Egg and West Egg; in West Egg, between two luxurious villas, and room for oneself a house, which he took off for eighty dollars a month. In the more fashionable East Egg lives his second cousin Daisy. She is married to Tom Buchanan. Tom fabulously rich, he studied at Yale at the same time with Nick, Nick, and even then it was very unsympathetic aggressively flawed demeanor. Tom began to change his wife still in the honeymoon; and now he does not bother to hide their relationship from Nick with Myrtle Wilson, the wife of the owner of a gas station and car repairs, which is located halfway between the West Eggom and New York, where the highway runs very close to the railway, and a quarter of a mile runs beside her. Daisy also knows about her husband's infidelity, it hurts her; from the first visit to them Nick left the impression that Daisy need to run out of the house immediately.