In Chapter Four, Gatsby takes Nick for a drive into the city and delivers his carefully rehearsed life story — wealthy Midwestern family, Oxford education, war medals, European adventure. Nick almost believes it. Almost. Over lunch, we meet Meyer Wolfshiem, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, and suddenly the glamour around Gatsby gets a lot more complicated. Then Jordan Baker finally tells Nick the truth. The mansion, the parties, the green light across the water — none of it was ever about wealth or status. It was always about one person. Gatsby bought that house so he could see Daisy's light from his lawn. And now he's asking Nick to bring her back to him. Five years of waiting. One afternoon of tea. And nothing about Jay Gatsby is simple. Follow the show so you never miss a chapter, and drop a comment with the classic you want us to read next — your suggestion could become our next season.

"Season 3, Episode 3 — The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In Chapter Three, Nick finally steps inside Gatsby's world. The parties are legendary — hundreds of guests, orchestras, champagne, and chaos — yet Gatsby himself stands apart from all of it, composed and watchful, smiling that impossible smile. When Nick finally meets him face to face, the man is nothing like he imagined. Charming, deliberate, and full of secrets.

Meanwhile Jordan Baker reveals herself to be something other than she appears, and Nick finds himself drawn deeper into a world he never planned to be part of.

The mystery of Jay Gatsby is just getting started.

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Season 3, Episode 2 — The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In Chapter Two, Nick is pulled beyond the gilded world of East Egg and into the Valley of Ashes — a grey, desolate wasteland that exists in the shadow of all that wealth. Here we meet Myrtle Wilson, Tom Buchanan's mistress, alive and restless in a way that Daisy never allows herself to be. What follows is a chaotic afternoon party in a New York apartment that starts with whiskey and strangers and ends in violence.

The world beneath the glamour is uglier than it looks.

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