Summary of the Book
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past.
As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby's impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into traged