During the early 1920s, after the Great War, banking and wealth came out shining and strong. Nick Carraway, a successful bond man moved to West Egg, and area just outside of New York, to further grow his chances of success in his career. He moves back to Long Island and surrounds himself with successful individuals with extravagant mansions who have earned a purpose and status in this world. The story opens with background information of Nick and how he ended up in West Egg. The well-educated man grew up with advantages as his father stated,"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had," this suggests that Nick grew up in a middle class family and while was able to have certain advantages and privileges, was not served everything on a silver platter. Aphorism and other rhetorical devices are used to emphasize the meaning that contains the specific truth, not. This give Fitzgerald the ability to illustrate how Carraway had to work for his success and he felt that was what allowed a man to become successful. He moved and paid for his home himself to provide himself better opportunities. Upon Nick's move to the West Egg, he is invited to his cousin's home that is on the other side of time. Daisy, Nick's cousin, and her husband Tom, are two wealthy individuals who didn't have to worry about money growing up, and in fact didn't even have to work hard for their success. Nick goes to their home, and upon arrival begins to examine the ways that each of them live. This lies the introduction of a possible theme of wealth versus poverty and what influences such can have on an individual. Nick catches up with his cousin and her husband and one of Daisy's friends over dinner. This chapter evolves around the background stories of these people and the relationships and backgrounds of such characters. Daisy and Tom's marriage is in fact much more complicated then it seems. Rumors suggest that Tom has a mistress in New York. This develops an underlying problem and symbolizes the way much of the United States was after the Great War. People wanted to look as happy and pleased as possible on the outside, but rather were struggling for satisfaction internally. This can be used from relationships to even the corrupt government that would soon crash and turn into a depression. Towards the end of the chapter, the mysterious figure known as Gatsby is seen. Nick does not know a lot about Gatsby but instead he illustrates a perplexing man that no one knows much about. At the end of the chapter, Gatsby is seen on the end of the dock looking out over the water. There seems to a green light at the end on the dock that Gatsby was staring at, but Nick could not tell exactly what he was looking at. Seconds later, Gatsby was gone, thus raising questions of what he could have been looking at on that water or what the purpose of the green light meant. Could this light be the symbol that drives Gatsby or even contains his darkest secrets or hopes?