The narrator is a man from Minnesota named Nick Carraway. In the summer of 1922, Nick talks about how he just moved to New York, to work in a bond business. He rented a house in Long Island called West Egg. West Egg is a place for the “new rich” as they call people who have made their money recently. Nick lives next door to the Gatsby’s mansion. Nick is no way shape or form like Gatsby; he was a graduate from Yale. One night he drives to East Egg to join his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan. At dinner Tom brings up a conversation about a book “The Rise of the Colored Empire” which talks about racism. Tom receives a phone call and leaves the room suspiciously, Daisy follows immediately and finds out it was his other lover from New York. After this weird dinner Nick leaves and when he arrives home, he sees Gatsby for his first. A young handsome man he describes standing on his lawn with his arms toward the water. Nick checks to see what he was looking at and finds nothing besides a light. From his first reaction, he is probably thinking that this man is a very weird and freaky spiritual man, and might have some problems in the future.