The Great Gatsby : A letter from Nick

Dear Mother and Father,

I'm writing to inform you of my well-being and how I have been since I moved to West Egg. Just to clarify I moved away in-order to become something of myself. 

I live in a very wealthy area, between two huge houses. One in which has a tower on one side under a thin layer of Ivy, it also contains a marble swimming pool. The lawns and garden stretches for forty acres. The person who rents this place must rent it for twelve to fifteen thousand a season. He goes by the name of Gatsby. I didn’t know this till quite recently, but he has been acting very strange recently, when I see him at night outside his house he seems to be reaching out into the darkness towards a green light on the other side of the Sound. I choose not to question Gatsby’s ways, but he is becoming a mysterious figure in the distance and a figure that I cannot stop questioning. Unfortunately, I have never had the pleasure to talk to Gatsby as he usually looks as though he would like to be left alone.

I also own a house in West egg, but not to mine or your surprise, compared to Gatsby's house mine is an eyesore, and in that a very small eyesore. Although it is not as lavish as Gatsby's, I still have a view of the water, but my house is in disappointing adjacency to millionaires- all for eighty dollars a month. For what I have to pay it is enough, it is not where either you or I expected me to be, but considering my experience and situation of just moving it is manageable. I have no intentions in staying in this small of a house for long, especially with the other houses either side but I have chose not to complain as this is the best I can get at this time.   

My House is at the top, and about fifty yards from the sound, and across the water on the other side, East Egg, lives Daisy and Tom. I have known Tom from college and Daisy is family. They also own a very large house, not as grand as Gatsby’s, but far nicer than mine, at the end of their dock they have a green light, the same light that I see Gatsby reaching out to.  To be honest my house is nothing, I moved away to become a young rounded man but until I find some work I am nothing but another face in the West Egg.

I have planned to go visit Tom and Daisy soon, All I can say is since I have moved I have been full of questions on the people around me , especially Gatsby, but I believe some questions explaining personal reason are best left unanswered. Until I have the pleasure to meet Gatsby I will have to keep my questioning to myself, although then I’ll feel as if I’m being disrespectful as, I do not believe Gatsby, of anyone, would question my ways or actions. 

 
Kind regards I’ll visit soon,

Your son Nick