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Nick lives in West Egg.
“I lived at West Egg, the—well, less fashionable of the two,” pg 5. -
Nick meets the Buchanans
His first impression of them is that Daisy is very shallow and there isn’t much to her and that Tom is your standard rich jock. -
Tom takes Nick to NYC.
Nick doesn’t want to go but he is the excuse so Daisy doesn’t find out about Tom’s secret affair with Myrtle Wilson. -
Nick meets Gatsby.
Without realizing it was the man himself, Nick Carraway sits at a table of strangers at one of Gatsby’s big parties and has a conversation with him. Gatsby later reveals they were in the same troop during the war. -
Gatsby tells Nick about his love for Daisy.
Gatsby tells Nick that Daisy was the first girl he knew who wasn't one of loose or questionable morals. The girls and women Gatsby had known were ones who were easy for him to get and easy for him to just as quickly discard. -
Gatsby arranges things for Daisy to come over.
He cleans up his house real nice and gets Nick to invite her over for tea. When she comes she if overwhelmed by what could’ve been her life with Gatsby, but she was too impatient and unsure. -
Daisy hits Myrtle.
While on the way home, Daisy is in Gatsby’s car (which Myrtle thought was Tom’s) with Gatsby and doesn’t see Myrtle pop out. Myrtle was running to Tom because her husband locked her in the room because he thought she was cheating on him. -
Gatsby is shot.
Gatsby was shot by George Wilson because of a misunderstanding. George believed that he was the one involved in an affair with his wife Myrtle and killed her in a car accident. -
Gatsby's terrible funeral.
The only people who come to Gatsby's funeral are Nick, the minister, Henry (Gatsby's father), four or five servants, the West Egg postman, and Owl Eyes. -
Nick leaves West Egg and goes westward.
After the death of his best friend, Nick says, "the East was haunted for me..."(185).
