The Great Gatsby is a wonderful historical fiction book written by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. This book does not contain any historical personages, but it accurately portrays the time period. The book starts out by introducing Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota, who moves to New York in the summer of 1922 to learn about the bond business. He rents a house in the West Egg, which is located inside of the District of Long Island. People who live there are people who have just become wealthy. Nick's next-door neighbor is Jay Gatsby, a mysterious man who lives in a big Gothic house. Many know Gatsby people for throwing extravagant parties every Saturday night. One evening, Nick drives to East Egg to have dinner with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and her husband, Tom Buchanan, who was Nick's classmate when they went to Yale together. At his cousin's house...