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GATSBY CHAPTER 1

> Introducing Nick Carraway, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Nick's mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby.
>He is a young man in his late twenties who grew up in the Midwest in a prominent, respected middle class family.
>He says he's a decent human being who was taught at an early age to reserve judgement.
>He graduated from New Haven(Yale) in 1915, and then served in the military in world war 1.

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