The Great Gatsby follows Nick Carraway as he moves to Long Island in the summer of 1922 and becomes entangled in the glittering, reckless world of his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby—a self-made millionaire obsessed with rekindling a lost romance with Daisy Buchanan. As Nick witnesses lavish parties, secret affairs, and the moral decay beneath the Jazz Age’s glamour, Gatsby’s dream begins to crumble against the realities of class, privilege, and the impossibility of recreating the past. In the end, the novel exposes the tragic cost of idealism in a world driven by illusion and wealth.