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The setting of The Great Gatsby is New York in the 1920s.
The Great Gatsby was influenced through Fitzgerald's personal experiences, during the 1920's.
“Contemporary legends such as the ‘underground-pipe-line to Canada’ attached themselves to him…” (Fitzgerald)
“ The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” (Fitzgerald 43)
"The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it, and contiguous to absolutely nothing." (Fitzgerald 17)
“Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night.” (Fitzgerald 102)
“ I was scared, I can tell you; Id never seen a girl like that before.” (Fitzgerald)
" “By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me.” (Fitzgerald)
“…and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant..” (Fitzgerald)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and Matthew J. Bruccoli. The great Gatsby. New York, NY: Scribner, 1996. Print.
"Bles-sed pre-cious," she crooned, holding out her arms. "Come to your oen mother that loves you." (Fitzgerald 74)
"'All this ‘old sport’ business. Where’d you pick that up?'" (Fitzgerald 135)
"I wondered if this partnership had included the World’s Series transaction in 1919." (Fitzgerald 109)
"If he’d of lived, he’d of been a great man. A man like James J. Hill. He’d of helped build up the country." (Fitzgerald 107)
"He was a captain before he went to the front, and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine-guns." (Fitzgerald 96)
" ...eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before" (Fitzgerald 26).
“His bedroom was the simplest of all except where the dress was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold.” (Fitzgerald 98)
"I had a dog and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove" (Fitzgerald 4)
"You slay me" - that's funny
"Dumb Dora" - a stupid female
"Egg" - a person who lives the big life
"Hair of the Dog" - a shot of alcohol
"Struggle Buggy" - the backseat of a car
"...but now he'd left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away." (Fitzgerald 6)
"It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before." (Fitzgerald 99)
" I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment..." (Fitzgerald 28)
"The bottle of whiskey — a second one — was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.'" (Fitzgerald 20)
"With a reluctant backward glance the well-disciplined child held to her nurse’s hand and was pulled out the door, just as Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice." (Fitzegerald Ch7)
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