"The Great Gatsby": Characters

The novel is seen through his eyes. Nick is originally from Minnesota and comes from a big family that seems to be very close, he got his education at Yale and shortly thereafter he fought in WWI.
He moves to New York to try to make money selling bonds; however he doesn't seem to be doing so well.
He decides to move to Long Island with a friend a rent a house because he does not like life in a small apartment.
They find a nice bungalow on what is called the west egg of long island. In west egg lives the people who have just recently made their fortune or "new money" as they are referred to as in the novel.
Their recent good fortune does not enable them to enter into fashionable society.
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