The summary of chapter1: First-person narrator Nick Carraway introduces the novel, insisting that based on advice his wealthy father once gave him he strenuously avoids judging people; however, he admits that this habit often causes him problems, with particular reference to events concerning a man named Gatsby. Nike leaves New York―where these events took place―to return to the Midwest. Toward the end of the novel, Nick says that a year or two has passed since the story took place. Nick opens his story by recounting that he, a young man from Minnesota, has moved to New York, renting a low-cost cottage located in West Egg, the less fashionable of two fictional seaside communities alongside one another on Long Island Sound (the other one being East Egg). Nick visits his second cousin, Daisy Buchanan, whose husband, Tom, was a football player at Yale and who now is a phenomenally wealthy "polo player", as Gatsby introduces him to other party goers. The Buchanans have an opulent mansion in East Egg. Here, Nick meets Jordan Baker, a lady friend of Daisy's and well-known golfer.They also had dinner together. The summary of chapter2: It’s talking about Nick and his friend “TOM” and Tom’s mistress ‘Myrtle”went to NEWYORK together and they met Myrtle’s husband “George Wilson”before they gone,and they also met Myrtle ‘s sister “Catherine’after they reached New York.The chapter shows us between west Egg and New York there are valley of ashes many factories,pollution,dirty ,desolate,like a industrial waste land.And on the road ,Nick saw a billboard is about the eyes of Doctor T.J.Ecklebury are blue and gigantic ,with a big glasses.According chapter,describe the personal charaters ,George Wilson is a absent minded,hopeless,unhealthy person.Mrytle is a modernism person,she didn’t care about her husband,she symbol of love in this chapter,when they in NewYork,they drunk and chatting.And at the ending of this chapter,Tom hit Mrytle.

　　The summary of chapter3:

　　The main hero of this novel,Gatsby, Nick’s neighbor in the big house next door, puts on very big parties every weekend. These affairs seem to operate on an open admission basis. There is always plenty of good food to eat and good liquor to drink. An orchestra plays jazz. The attendees party whole heartedly.

　　Nick want to go to the party,and he finds Tom and Daisy’s friend Jordan Baker.Jordan and Nick explore the party together. It’s extravagant. They listen to people talk about their very rich and very mysterious host Gatsby. Everyone has a pet theory about who he is and where he got his money.

　　Nick’s drinking a little champagne. He meets a man his own age, a fellow war veteran. They chat politely. It turns out that this is Gatsby. He “smiled understandingly – much more than understandingly...” and showed “a quality of eternal reassurance… concentrated on you…” which “understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood.”

　　At last , Nick knew Gatsby. And Nick told of Jordan Baker whom he is beginning to see regularly.And Nick is attracted to Jordan.

　　The summary of chapter4:

　　Gatsby’s Gatsby takes Nick to lunch and introduces him to Meyer Wolfshiem, who, he claims, was responsible for fixing the 1919 World Series. Wolfshiem is a shady character with underground business connections. He gives Nick the impression that the source of Gatsby’s wealth might be unsavory, and that Gatsby may even have ties to the sort of organized crime with which Wolfshiem is associated.After the lunch in New York, Nick sees Jordan Baker, who finally tells him the details of her mysterious conversation with Gatsby at the party. She relates that Gatsby told her that he is in love with Daisy Buchanan. According to Jordan, during the war, before Daisy married Tom, Daisy chose to marry Tom after Gatsby .Jordan adds that Gatsby bought his mansion in West Egg solely to be near Daisy. Nick remembers the night he saw Gatsby stretching his arms out to the water and realizes that the green light he saw was the light at the end of Daisy’s dock. According to Jordan, Gatsby has asked her to convince Nick to arrange a reunion between Gatsby and Daisy. Because he is terrified that Daisy will refuse to see him, Gatsby wants Nick to invite Daisy to tea. Without Daisy’s knowledge, Gatsby intends to come to the tea at Nick’s house as well, surprising her and forcing her to see him.

　　The summary of chapter 5:

　　After his evening in the park with Jordan, Nick returns to his house on Long Island. Gatsby’s place next door is illuminated. Gatsby walks over to talk to Nick. He and Nick set a date up a date with Daisy for afternoon tea to be held at Nick’s house.

　　Gatsby at this time offers Nick work, “it happens to be rather a confidential thing,” and Nick turns Gatsby down.

　　The afternoon tea date at Nick’s house comes off. Daisy and Gatsby are reunited.

　　After tea the threesome adjourn to Gatsby’s house, and he shows Daisy around. Nick tags along, but Daisy and Gatsby only have eyes for each other.

　　The summary of chapter 6:

　　Nick breaks the chronological progression of the story here to tell us something of Gatsby’s true past. His parents were “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people.” As a boy of seventeen Gatsby was bumming around Lake Superior when he encountered the millionaire robber baron Dan Cody touring on his yacht. Cody became Gatsby’s mentor, and Gatsby stayed with Cody for five years, until Cody died.

　　The narrative resumes. Nick is seeing Jordan regularly. Gatsby is seeing Daisy regularly.

　　Tom Buchanan and a couple of his friends, out for a ride on horseback, stop by Gatsby’s

　　place one afternoon to check him out.

　　The following weekend, Tom attends one of Gatsby’s parties with Daisy.

　　At the end of this evening, Gatsby talks with Nick. He realizes that Daisy is put off by the noise and garishness of the big parties. As Nick puts it, Daisy “was appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms…”

　　Gatsby tells Nick the history of his relationship with Daisy. He reveals the depth of his romantic love for her and his commitment to her: “…he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath…”

　　The summary of chapter 7:

　　Because Daisy doesn’t approve of the wild parties, Gatsby stops having them. He gets rid of his old servants and installs a less adept but more discreet set.Nick and Jordan and Gatsby are invited to the Buchanans’ place for lunch. It’s a very hot day. They have drinks and lunch. Daisy suggests they all go into the City. Over beers right after lunch Tom realizes finally that Daisy is in love with Gatsby. He’s surprised and angry. The party does decide to go to the City. Daisy wants Gatsby to go with her in the Buchanans’ car. Tom drives Nick and Jordan in Gatsby’s car. Tom stops for gas at Wilson’s place in the valley of ashes. Wilson tells Tom he suspects his wife is being unfaithful, with whom he doesn’t know. He confides that he plans to take his wife away. This is one more shock for Tom. Finally,Gatsby and Tom change their car to each other.they plan to go to New york. Myrtle Wilson dashes out in the road in front of her husband’s gas station as Gatsby and Daisy drive through the valley of ashes. Gatsby’s car hits her. She is killed. The car drives on – it leaves the scene of the accident.

　　Nick and Jordan and Tom come upon the accident scene. All the gory details of the accident are related. Jordan and Nick then drive on with Tom to the Buchanans’ place. Gatsby worried about Daisy.

　　The summary of chapter 8:

　　Nick want Gatsby leave,but Gatsby refuses to give up hoping that Daisy will leave Tom.

　　Daisy still cared for Gatsby, but she met Tom Buchanan and was attracted to him and fell in love with him. “Doubtless there was a certain struggle and a certain relief.” Tom and Daisy married.

　　Gatsby’s love for Daisy had transformed his life. When he was finally discharged from the army he made a pilgrimage to Daisy’s hometown, though she had already married and wasn’t living there anymore.

　　Nick and Gatsby have breakfast together, then Nick takes a train into the City.

　　At noon at Nick’s office Jordan Baker calls him and they quarrel overtly.

　　Nick then returns the narrative to the night before, after Myrtle was killed, to explain that George Wilson had a sort of emotional breakdown after his wife’s death, and some of his friends and neighbors stayed with him to watch him during the night.

　　The following morning however, Wilson slips away on foot. Acting on information he got from Tom Buchanan the evening before, he goes looking for Gatsby.

　　That afternoon, Gatsby is in his pool. Wilson finds him there and murders him, then he kills himself.

　　Nick returns form the city and goes looking for Gatsby at his house and finds the bodies.

　　The summary of chapter 9:

　　Nick reminds us that this is a memoir of events that took place two years previously. At the coroner’s inquest the connection between Myrtle Wilson and Tom Buchanan is never discovered.

　　Nick is left to make Gatsby’s funeral arrangements. Tom and Daisy have left town. Meyer Wolfsheim, Gatsby’s gangster mentor, lets Nick know via letter that he does not care to be involved any further in Gatsby’s affairs.

　　Gatsby’s father, “a solemn old man very helpless and dismayed,” arrives on Long Island.

　　Nick goes to New York to see Mr. Wolfsheim. Wolfsheim refuses to even attend the funeral. The last information about Gatsby comes from his father, who shows Nick an old copy of a boy’s book - the young Gatsby’s schedule for the day and resolutions for improving himself are written on the fly leaf in back. Nick, Gatsby’s father, a minister, servants from Gatsby’s big house, and the local postman attend the funeral ceremony. One stray party-goer makes it to the actual burial.

　　Nick returned home to the Midwest in winter on the train, of balanced between the exciting glamorous East and the reassuring solid Midwest.

　　He sees Jordan Baker one more time ,she was married and tells her good bye. And before he leaves he runs into Tom Buchanan on the sidewalk in New York. He don’t want to get touch with them anymore.On Nick’s last night in the East, he walks over to Gatsby’s place and looks over the grounds one last time. He walks down to the shore of the bay and sits in the sand.

　　Of Jay Gatsby standing on the shore staring across the bay to Daisy’s house: “his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.. Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.”