Nick has been invited to dinner at the Buchanans.The Buchanans lived in an enormous Georgian style mansion 7. Jay Gatsby owns and inhabits the mansion.Д¦. The one on his right is a 'colossal affair,' fashioned after a City Hall in Normandy, France, complete with marble swimming pool and forty acres of lawn and gardens.His house is a small bungalow, renting for $80 per month it is really an eyesore located between two large mansions.He has rented a home on West Egg, one of two identical (in appearance) egg-shaped islands located on Long Island Sound, twenty miles from the city.He has come to New York City to learn the bond business, like many of his friends.

He graduated from New Haven (Yale) in 1915, and then served in the military in World War I.He says he is a decent human being who was taught at an early age to reserve judgment, a trait which has made him a confidante to many people in his life.He is a young man in his late twenties who grew up in the Midwest in a prominent, respected middle class family.The main purpose of this first chapter is to introduce the characters and setting of the book.The novel is set in New York in the 1920's, at Nick Carraway's bungalow and Gatsby's mansion on West Egg, at the Buchanan's mansion on East Egg, in various places in New York City, including Myrtle's apartment, the Plaza Hotel, and a restaurant across from The Metropole, and in the Valley of Ashes.

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