Main Characters

We begin this story with Nick Carraway, the narrator, a soft spoken but keen man from a prominent, well off Middle Western family. Nick moves to Long Island, NY, and plans to meet up with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan. Daisy introduces Nick to her husband Tom Buchanan, and a friend of hers, Jordan Baker, with whom Nick develops a brief romantic relationship throughout the course of the novel. Soon, Nick writes about his fabulously wealthy neighbor, one Mr. Gatsby.
We first see him as an intriguing but mysterious figure, and the center of many varying rumors. Next, Tom Buchanan ends up taking Nick to go with him and meet a woman named Myrtle Wilson, with whom Tom holds an affair. He meets Myrtle and her husband George Wilson, a poor working man who owns an auto garage along the Valley of Ashes. Eventually, Nick meets his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Nick and Gatsby get along well and become friends. Last but not least, we are introduced by Gatsby to one of his business associates, Meyer Wolfsheim. A rather shady figure, he claims to have partaken in the fixing of the 1919 World Series. This briefly summarizes the main characters of the novel and how by they are encountered.