The story is set in the 1920s, in West Egg (Long Island) and tells a very romantic but also very tragic story, representing a utopian dream. In this novel there are several main characters, including the protagonist Jay Gatsby, Daisy Fay (the beloved girl from the protagonist), Nick Carraway (the narrator of the story), Tom Buchanan (Daisy's husband), Myrtle (Tom's lover) and the mechanic (Myrtle's husband).Gatsby used to throw wild parties every night hoping that sooner or later his beloved Daysi would come. Daysi was a girl he had met 5 years before creating his entire empire, the two young people were in love but could not get married because Jay Gatsby at the time did not belong to the same social class as Daysi.Gatsby knew that Nick was Daisy's cousin and invited him to a party and asked him the favor of arranging a meeting for him at his house.The two lovers reunite and Gatsby becomes Daisy's lover. Tom also had another relationship with Myrtle, the mechanic's wife. One evening between Tom and Gatsby a love dispute breaks out for Daisy during a party at the end of which Daisy makes it clear that she prefers Tom, her husband, to her lover Gatsby.That same evening Tom forces Daysi to go home with Gatsby, the woman starts driving and, in the throes of emotions, runs over Myrtle.
Myrtle's husband later discovers that the car that hit Myrtle was Gatsby's, and decides to kill him with a gun.Gatsby dies alone and no one shows up at his funeral except Nick Carraway and his dad, who was the only one who was truly friends with him.