Midwestern Finance Associate Relocates to West Egg for New Role
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since....
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by F. Scott Fitzgerald · 9 chapters
A concise, elegant critique of wealth and desire, The Great Gatsby captures the glitter and disillusionment of the 1920s through a narrator caught between old money and new ambition.
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since....
About halfway between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. This is a v...
There was music from my neighbour’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in t...
On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby’s house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn....
When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire. Two o’clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light, which fell unreal on the shrubber...
About this time an ambitious young reporter from New York arrived one morning at Gatsby’s door and asked him if he had anything to say....
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