The "colossal affair" that is Jay Gatsby's mansion, Owl Eyes, Wolfsheim and his "gonnegtions," West Egg, East Egg, the valley of ashes, Jordan Baker, and Daisy Fay--they belong to all time as does the American classic in which they appear. But a classic belongs to its own time,...
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