<P> In the summer of 1922 , Nick Carraway , a Yale graduate and veteran of the Great War from the Midwest -- who serves as the novel 's narrator -- takes a job in New York as a bond salesman . He rents a small house on Long Island , in the fictional village of West Egg , next door to the lavish mansion of Jay Gatsby , a mysterious multi-millionaire who holds extravagant parties but does not participate in them . Nick drives around the bay to East Egg for dinner at the home of his cousin , Daisy Fay Buchanan , and her husband , Tom , a college acquaintance of Nick 's . They introduce Nick to Jordan Baker , an attractive , cynical young golfer . She reveals to Nick that Tom has a mistress , Myrtle Wilson , who lives in the `` valley of ashes , '' an industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City . Not long after this revelation , Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle to an apartment that Tom uses like a hotel room for Myrtle , as well as other women whom he also sleeps with . At Tom 's New York apartment , a vulgar and bizarre party takes place . It ends with Tom physically abusing Myrtle , breaking her nose in the process , after she says Daisy 's name several times , which makes him angry . </P>
<P> In the summer of 1922 , Nick Carraway , a Yale graduate and veteran of the Great War from the Midwest -- who serves as the novel 's narrator -- takes a job in New York as a bond salesman . He rents a small house on Long Island , in the fictional village of West Egg , next door to the lavish mansion of Jay Gatsby , a mysterious multi-millionaire who holds extravagant parties but does not participate in them . Nick drives around the bay to East Egg for dinner at the home of his cousin , Daisy Fay Buchanan , and her husband , Tom , a college acquaintance of Nick 's . They introduce Nick to Jordan Baker , an attractive , cynical young golfer . She reveals to Nick that Tom has a mistress , Myrtle Wilson , who lives in the `` valley of ashes , '' an industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City . Not long after this revelation , Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle to an apartment that Tom uses like a hotel room for Myrtle , as well as other women whom he also sleeps with . At Tom 's New York apartment , a vulgar and bizarre party takes place . It ends with Tom physically abusing Myrtle , breaking her nose in the process , after she says Daisy 's name several times , which makes him angry . </P>
whos the main character in the great gatsby
whos the main character in the great gatsby
Nick Carraway
Nick Carraway