The narrator, a Yale graduate, moves to New York to learn the bond business. He meets Gatsby, a man from a wealthy Midwest family who attended Oxford. Gatsby invites the narrator to lunch and shows him his war medals.
Gatsby wants Daisy to tell Tom she never loved him and wants to go back to Louisville to get married as they had planned 5 years ago.
Mrs. Wilson is killed by a car that doesn't stop. Gatsby says he tried to stop Daisy from driving, but she couldn't, so he pulled on the emergency brake.
After two years, Nick remembers the police and photographers at Gatsby's house after his death.
On the last night, Nick looks at Gatsby's house one last time.