The Great Gatsby Flashbacks

The narrator of the story, Nick Carraway, has just returned from war and goes east to work. In flashbacks he reveals the story of Jay Gatsby, his next-door neighbor. The nine chapters develop around seven parties interspersed with flashbacks. Nick meets Jordan Baker, Daisy’s friend from Louisville, who reveals that Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, the wife of a garage owner in the Valley of Ashes. Nick is shocked at the lack of morality in every level. At the second party, Tom introduces Nick to Myrtle, who invites her sister Catherine and the McKees. At Gatsby’s first party in West Egg, Nick meets a myriad of high-profile guests, most of whom have not been invited, all of whom ignore the statute concerning prohibition. The atmosphere