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 bungalow in the Long Island village of West Egg next to a luxurious estate inhabited by Jay Gatsby an enigmatic multi-millionaire who hosts dazzling soirées yet does not partake in them.