Chapter One Of TGG

(I'll be honest.  I didn't like TGG.  Not until the end, when things got bloodthirsty.)

The starting chapter in TGG begins by explaining a little about the narrative character, Nick Carraway.  He comes from a fairly posh family full of bankers, and apparently snobs.  It is roundabouts the Twenties, and in America, with Nick being fresh out of university.  He is travelling away from home, toward the home of his cousin Daisy Buchanan, and her husband Tom, who Nick was friends with in "college".  He gets a house on the West Egg, across from the East Egg where most of the posh people live.  This house on the West Egg is coincidentally next door to Gatsby's.  Gatsby is described as a great, wonderful man.  
Nick goes for dinner at Daisy and Tom's, during which he meets Jordan Baker, who is apparently rather good at tennis, and hears an argument between Daisy and Tom about Tom having a lover. 
After the dinner, Nick sees Gatsby hovering in the garden, but he disappears before getting a moment to talk.

This is basically naught but an explanatory chapter, discussing a few of the characters but none in any particular depth.   It also gives a little backstory to the majority of the characters, although Gatsby remains a mystery feature, with no real evidence that he even really exists.  He may be at this point a figment of Nick's imagination, almost like an imaginary friend. 
There isn't really all that much to write about chapter one, as nothing major really happens.  The evidence of Tom's mistress will become a major issue, but in the chapter it it just brushed over with the dinner continuing and it not being mentioned again.  Certainly having read the novel, I know it will become a huge plot key.  However within the chapter itself there is not really all that much to discuss, simply a little bit of narrative on a dinner with an outwardly happy family who clearly has cracks in it like every goshdarn family on the planet!!