Chapter 1

The story begins with the narrator, who we find out later to be Nick Carraway. Nick is talking about the advice his father gave him once. His father told him not to ever criticize anyone because other people have not have had the same advantages in life that he has. Nick explains how he always has tried to live life with out judging others around him. 
He decides to head East to learn a bond business and thinks it practical to live on Long Island instead of New York City. He settles into a little house at West Egg, the "poorer" of the two Eggs. It was located next to Gatsby's mansion and directly across the bay of East Egg, the more fashionable village. Nick decides to visit his second cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan, who reside on East Egg. He meets Tom, Daisy, and Daisy's friend, Jordan Baker. Tom Buchanan is a very wealthy, arrogant man and feels as if he's superior. He is also having an affair on Daisy with a woman in New York. Daisy is very cynical. There's a hint of sadness in her words and her actions. Fitzgerald makes her to sound unintelligent in the way she talks and her mannerisms. There is not much learned about Miss Baker but she is very talkative. Gatsby is introduced into the story at the end of Chapter 1. He is portrayed as a very, mysterious character. Nick does not talk to him, but he just sees Gatsby in the distance and is curious about him.