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In 1917, Daisy was the prettiest girl in Louisville, and she fell for a young soldier. They were very much in love. The only problem was that her family was extremely wealthy, and the soldier had nothing. When he left for WWI, he promised he'd return.

Coming from an impoverished family in North Dakota, young Gatsby enlisted in the army. While he was in combat, he dreamt of his beloved Daisy and became determined to return to her as a wealthy, successful man she could marry.

Daisy didn't wait for Gatsby. Tom was from a wealthy family, a more typical match for her. She cried before her wedding day. Later in the novel, Daisy admits that she loved Tom.

In June of 1922, Nick moved to West Egg. It meant commuting to the city for his job selling bonds, but he wanted to spend the summer in a less crowded area. His cousin, Daisy, and her husband lived not very far away, in East Egg.

Tom was having an affair with a local woman, the wife of the service station owner, Wilson. Myrtle would tell her unsuspecting husband that she was spending time in the city with her sister, only to be spending it with the wealthy, dashing Tom Buchanan. He rented and furnished an apartment for Myrtle, and bought her a dog on a whim.

Gatsy purchased his palatial home across the bay from Daisy's home with Tom, and waited for the right moment to approach her. The right time came when Nick, her cousin, moved in and could make the re-introductions. They are immediately caught up in their nostalgic young love.

Things really took a turn for the worse when Wilson, Myrtle's husband, learned she had been cheating on him. He essentially locked Myrtle into a room upstairs and was desperate to raise money to move out west for a fresh start.

After an emotional confrontation between Daisy's two men, she jumped into the car with Gatsby and sped back to East Egg. She didn't even slow down when a woman, who turned out to be Myrtle, ran into the road.

Wilson, Myrtle's husband, bereft and unhinged after her death, believed that she had been cheating on him with Gatsby, rather than Tom. He took a firearm to Gatsby's house and shot him while Gatsby was in the pool.

After Gatsby is gone, Nick finds Gatsby's journal in which he made his plans for self-improvement: exercise, study, practice elocution, and playing sports, to make himself a more successful person. Nick admired Gatsby for his self-discipline and was much more impressed with that than with the dubious ethical choices of his wealthy acquaintances.