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- The Great Gatsby
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- (MAY 11, 1925)
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- The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald. Still the brightest
- boy in the class, Scott Fitzgerald holds up his hand. It is
- noticed that his literary trousers are longer, less
- bell-bottomed, but still precious. His recitation concerns Daisy
- Fay who, drunk as a monkey the night before she married Tom
- Buchanan, muttered: "Tell 'em all Daisy's chang'd her mind." A
- certain penniless Navy lieutenant was believed to be swimming
- out of her emotional past. They gave her a cold bath, she
- married Buchanan, settled expensively at West Egg, L.I., where
- soon appeared one lonely, sinister Gatsby, with mounds of
- mysterious gold, ginny habits and a marked influence on Daisy.
- He was the lieutenant, of course, still swimming. That he never
- landed was due to Daisy's baffled withdrawal to the fleshly,
- martial mainland. Due also to Buchanan's disclosure that the
- mounds of gold were ill-got. Nonetheless, Yegg Gatsby remained
- Daisy's incorruptible dream, unpleasantly removed in person
- toward the close of the book by an accessory in oil-smeared
- dungarees.
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