Nick tells us in the beginning of the novel that he went east in the spring of 1922. It took him awhile to find a place to live, get settled in West Egg, and to find his way around. Nick notes that when he left Tom and Daisy's the first night he had dinner with them (Chapter I), "Already it was deep summer . . . ." The three incidents he tells in the first three chapters (dinner at the Buchanans, the party at Tom and Myrtle's apartment, and the party at Gatsby's) took place within a three week period, but it was already "deep summer" before the first one occurred.
At the end of Chapter III, which is set mainly at Gatsby's mansion, Nick says that he "lost sight" of Jordan for a while, but found her again in "midsummer." That suggests July. So, if Nick went east in the spring of 1922 and Chapter III ends in July, then the story he tells to that point must have covered two or three months, depending upon whether spring was April or May.
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