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(1920s) The Great Gatsby
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1920s Highlights
Books
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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The Great Gatsby
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<p>(MAY 11, 1925)
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<p> 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.</p>
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