After reading the first couple of chapters of The Great Gatsby, in the story we meet a character named Nick Carraway who is the narrator. After moving to a island part of New York called the West Egg which is where most of the people there have become wealthy only recently, mostly from investing in the stock market. There aren't many nice houses but there is this one in particular that stands next to Nick apartment, and thats Jay Gasby. On the other side there is a town called the East Egg which it is filled with people who have inherited wealth through their families. To attend a dinner party that one of his friends the Buchanans, Nick has to travel to the East Egg. Nick and his friend Tom Buchanan had been friends for a while being that they both attended Yale University. While sitting at the dinner table Tom recommends this book called, "The Rise of the Colored Empires," this book promotes mainly white supremacy. In this Tom believes that all of the whites make up the dominant race are true, and that proves and shows how much of a racist Tom is. Towards the end of the chapter, Nick meets the man who lives next to him in the mansion named Jay Gatsby for the first time by the water. He suddenly looks back but comes to notice that Gasby is gone. After reading the chapter it left me wondering what was really going on. But that was one reason why I wanted to keep on going to figure out and answer my wondering questions.
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