Daisy Buchanan is Nick's cousin, and her husband, Tom, is Nick's former classmate at Yale University.

Tom has a lover, Myrtle, George's wife.

Gatsby throws extravagant parties to make up for his unfortunate childhood and to establish business connections in the East Egg.

Gatsby strikes Myrtle with his car, killing her.

Daisy's husband, Tom, kills Gatsby by the pool.

On the surface, The Great Gatsby  is a story of the thwarted love between a man and a woman. The main theme of the novel, however, encompasses a much larger, less romantic scope. Though all of its action takes place over a mere few months during the summer of 1922 and is set in a circumscribed geographical area in the vicinity of Long Island, New York, The Great Gatsby  is a highly symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole, in particular the disintegration of the American dream in an era of unprecedented prosperity and material excess.

The dizzying rise of the stock market in the aftermath of the war led to a sudden, sustained increase in the national wealth and a newfound materialism, as people began to spend and consume at unprecedented levels.

Gatsby’s fortune symbolizes the rise of organized crime and bootlegging.

One of the major topics explored in  The Great Gatsby is the sociology of wealth, specifically, how the newly minted millionaires of the 1920s differ from and relate to the old aristocracy of the country’s richest families.

There ISN'T allusion to The Great Gatsby in this Taylor verse: