The Great Gatsby
A newcomer to Long Island finds his neighbor throwing vast parties for a crowd that has never met him, and works out that the whole spectacle is aimed at a woman across the bay. Gatsby built himself out of nothing to win her back, five years late and married. Longing mistaken for a future that is really the past.
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- influenced by ↑ Nostromo
- influenced by ↑ Heart of Darkness
- continues ↑ This Side of Paradise
- reworks ↑ The Beautiful and Damned
- ↓ The Catcher in the Rye
- ↓ Dark Fields of the Republic
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