Though Nick is not so rich, he prefers to stay in an area where rich people stay which is the West Egg. He takes a relatively cheap house which is situated between two rich mansions. His neighbors are rich people and he knows it soon that one of his neighbors, Jay Gatsby is a very rich person as he throws lavish parties every week.

This West Egg is situated such that it faces the bay. On the other side of the West Egg, the East Egg is situated where some of Nick’s relatives an friends stay. The prominent person in the book among them is Daisy who is Nick’s cousin. She lives with her husband , Tom there. One day when Nick goes there, he sees Jordan there and instantly gets attracted towards her. He finds that the relation between Daisy and Tom is not so smooth. He finds from Jordan about Tom’s mistress Myrtle. He confirms this when Tom himself tells him about her at a later time.

While Gatsby throws parties, Nick gets intrigued by him and he feels excited and surprised one day when he gets an invitation for a party. He goes there and to his surprise he meets Jordan there and both of them accidentally meet Gatsby there. From then Gatsby and Nick become friends.

But soon many truths start to reveal. Nick comes to know about Gatsby’s love for Daisy and he arranges a meeting between those two. After this an affair starts between Daisy-Gatsby and Nick-Jordan. Soon Tom knows about Daisy’s affair with Gatsby and George, the husband o Myrtle knows about his wife’s affair.

An accident occurs at the valley of ashes in which Myrtle dies. Though Gatsby is shown as the culprit, we come to know that it was Daisy who killed her, though not intentionally. Knowing about this, George comes to Gatsby and kills him thinking that he was his wife’s secret lover.

All these incidents affect Nick in a very bad way. The rich society which seemed very appealing to him at first seems very disgusting after all these incidents. He feels shocked how he fell in love with this social status and he soon realizes that it is not his destiny. He vacates the place and goes to his place where he thinks he could live happily.