Nick carraway moves to New York in the summer of 1922 and rents a small home next door to Jay Gatsby, a man who throws the most elaborate parties he has ever seen. Gatsby is rich, mysterious, and an entirely invented persona, designed solely to seduce his neighbor, Daisy Buchanan, a woman who belongs to someone-and somewhere-else, but who Gatsby has spent a fortune and a lifetime believing he can win over. This legendary story of a summer of parties, of old money and new, of secrets and lies, of the entitlement of the rich and the resignation of the poor, of West versus East, has come to symbolize the core complexities of the human experience. The Great Gatsby is the essential American novel about the great American delusion: the idea that the past is retrievable, that desire is destiny, and that the right amount of will power and money can accomplish anything.