Jay Gatsby throws the most dazzling parties in all of Long Island, drapes himself in silk and mystery, and wants for nothing. Except one thing: Daisy Buchanan — married, luminous, and just across the bay. Narrated by the wonderfully observant Nick Carraway, this is a story of obsession, reinvention, and the seductive pull of a life just out of reach — set against the golden, boozy excess of the 1920s. The American Dream, it turns out, has always been better viewed from a distance.