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He had played football at New Haven, and his family were enormously wealthy. Daisy was my second cousin once removed and I'd known Tom in college. The history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over to have dinner with two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all, the Tom Buchanans. I had the consoling proximity of millionaires for eighty dollars a month. My own small eye-sore of a house was squeezed between two huge places, the one on my right was a colossal imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy with a marble swimming pool. I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two. Twenty miles from New York city a pair of enormous eggs, separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound. It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. I graduated from New Haven in 1915, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War. My family, the Carraway clan, have been well-to-do people in a middle-western city since my grandfather's brother started his wholesale hardware business. Gatsby turned out all right at the end it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. When I came back from the East last autumn I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.Ĭonduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.' In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her The book was only modestly successful when first released, but gained huge popularity after the Armed Services Editions gave away some 150,000 copies to the American military in World War II. This is the novel of the American inter-war 'Jazz Age', a term invented by Fitzgerald himself.

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