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The Great Gatsby
Chapter 1 · 8 illustrations A newcomer settles beside Gatsby's mansion
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1·1 A hazy early-summer dawn over Long Island Sound and the low green shore of West Egg
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1·3 A slanting beam of autumn light holds a column of drifting dust.
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1·4 Young Nick Carraway stands beside his great-uncle's portrait in his father's office
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1·5 A pale early-summer morning in the narrow kitchen of Nick's cheap rented bungalow.
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1·6 Nick walks on down the sunlit country road, quietly lifted after a stranger asked him the way.
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1·7 A row of new red-and-gold banking volumes stands on Nick's pine shelf, gleaming like fresh coins.
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1·8 From above, two green peninsulas of the same shape face each other across a calm bay
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1·9 From a gap in the hedge, Nick looks up at his neighbour's colossal new mansion
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Chapter 2 · 10 illustrations Dinner at East Egg and the green light
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2·1 On a June evening, the bay glitters gold and East Egg's white palaces stand across it
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2·2 On a warm, windy evening, Nick walks up the drive to the Buchanans' Georgian mansion
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2·3 Tom Buchanan stands legs apart atop his porch steps in riding boots, eyeing the guest
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2·4 Laughing, Daisy half-rises from the ivory couch and reaches out a hand to Nick
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2·5 In the rosy East Egg salon, Jordan Baker speaks Gatsby's name for the first time
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2·6 At dinner on the rosy porch, Tom counts the Nordics at the table and nods at his wife
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2·7 At dusk on the porch, Jordan Baker quietly tells Nick that Tom has a woman in New York
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2·9 Alone with her cousin on the dark veranda, Daisy turns her face away toward the lawn.
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2·10 Alone on his moonlit lawn, Gatsby stretches both arms out toward the dark bay, trembling.
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2·11 Night over the bay seen from Nick's lawn.
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Chapter 3 · 11 illustrations Tom's mistress and the party on 158th Street
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3·1 A high view of the grey valley of ashes, where the road runs beside the railroad
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3·2 Faded blue eyes in yellow spectacles look down from a billboard on the valley of ashes
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3·3 Myrtle Wilson stands in the garage's office doorway, her body blocking out the light
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3·4 Myrtle kneels over her new puppy in the cramped 158th Street flat full of huge furniture
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3·5 Tipsy chatter fills Myrtle's cramped apartment.
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3·6 In the crowded 158th Street apartment, Myrtle points at Nick and everyone turns to look
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3·7 A passer-by on 158th Street looks up at lit top windows where a secret party goes on
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3·8 Myrtle remembers how she met Tom on the train.
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3·9 Drunk and triumphant, Myrtle Wilson shouts Daisy's name a moment before Tom strikes her
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3·10 Tom Buchanan swings a short, practised blow at Myrtle, her mouth open on Daisy's name
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3·11 The party on 158th Street is over.
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Chapter 4 · 11 illustrations First Party at Gatsby's House
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4·1 At summer dusk, Gatsby's mansion blazes with coloured lights over the dark Sound
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4·2 Nick spots a familiar face above the crowd at Gatsby's first party.
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4·3 After a whisper that he killed a man, the table turns to search the garden for Gatsby
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4·4 Nick and Jordan leave the noisy party and step into a hushed, lantern-lit Gothic library.
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4·5 In the second before he says his name, the stranger at the table stops and looks blankly at Nick.
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4·6 Gatsby's rare smile of eternal reassurance turns fully on Nick at the midnight table.
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4·7 At the party's height, tipsy girls fall laughing into waiting arms as a quartet sways
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4·8 Late at night, Gatsby and Jordan Baker come out of the Gothic library sharing a secret
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4·9 Past Gatsby's gate, a coupé sits in the ditch, one wheel off, lit by a dozen headlights
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4·10 A large patent dancing shoe emerges from the wrecked coupé into the headlight glare
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4·11 Nick looks back from his own ragged lawn after the party.
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Chapter 5 · 9 illustrations Nick's summer: work, loneliness, Jordan
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5·1 At summer dawn, tiny clerks hurry through the white stone canyons of lower Manhattan
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5·2 At twilight, Nick walks alone up Fifth Avenue among motorcars and lit shop windows
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5·3 On Fifth Avenue at twilight, Nick passes lone young clerks and sees his own loneliness
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5·4 Nick stands alone on a dark street in the Forties as taxis of laughing couples roll by
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5·5 It is midsummer at a house-party in Warwick.
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5·6 On a rain-soaked porch in Warwick, Jordan Baker calmly denies leaving a car in the rain
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5·7 Jordan drives the open car on a wet road and calmly tells Nick she likes him
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5·8 Jordan Baker keeps her grey eyes on the road after telling Nick she likes him
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5·9 Alone in the club library at night, Nick holds his pen just above the end of his weekly letter home.
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Chapter 6 · 12 illustrations Gatsby's Life Story on the Road to Town
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6·1 Church bells ring on a bright Sunday as Gatsby's guests gather again on his vast lawn
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6·2 An old railway timetable crowded with faded names of everyone at Gatsby's that summer
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6·3 On a bright July morning, Gatsby's huge cream car lurches up to Nick's grey bungalow
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6·4 On a late-July morning Gatsby balances on the dashboard of his long cream car in Nick's rocky drive.
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6·5 As Gatsby says he was educated at Oxford, his blue-grey eyes slide sideways toward Nick
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6·6 At the wheel, Gatsby says Little Montenegro! with a full, warm smile over an open palm
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6·7 Gatsby drops a medal on a ribbon into Nick's open palm, the sun flashing on the metal
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6·8 Nick lowers Gatsby's Oxford photograph onto his chest and stops doubting.
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6·9 From Gatsby's speeding car, Nick glimpses Mrs. Wilson straining at the garage pump
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6·10 Under the elevated, Gatsby waves a small white card at a frowning motorcycle policeman
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6·11 Seen through the Queensboro Bridge girders, Manhattan rises white across the river
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6·12 On the Queensboro Bridge, Nick leans toward Manhattan's white towers in wonder
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Chapter 7 · 9 illustrations Lunch with Wolfshiem, Tom, and a Vanishing
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7·1 Forty-second Street burns white at noon, loud with traffic and crowded with people
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7·2 In the dim cellar anteroom, Meyer Wolfshiem slowly raises his large head.
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7·3 Wolfshiem ends his tale of Rosy Rosenthal's murder and turns a measuring look on Nick
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7·4 With Gatsby's chair empty, Wolfshiem proudly calls him an Oggsford man to Nick
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7·5 Wolfshiem's wrist lies on the white tablecloth next to a half-eaten plate of hash.
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7·6 Over lunch, Gatsby calmly tells Nick that Meyer Wolfshiem fixed the 1919 World's Series
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7·7 Close-up of Nick Carraway, eyes wide, as he learns who fixed the 1919 World's Series
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7·8 Tom Buchanan grips Gatsby's hand while looking past him, and Gatsby looks embarrassed
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7·9 Nick turns to introduce Gatsby to Tom Buchanan and finds an empty strip of tiled aisle
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Chapter 8 · 10 illustrations Jordan tells the story of Daisy and Gatsby
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8·1 On a hazy summer afternoon in 1922, the white Plaza Hotel rises over Fifth Avenue
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8·2 In the Plaza's gilded tea-garden, Jordan Baker sits very straight and begins her story
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8·3 Louisville, October 1917: Daisy Fay and Lieutenant Jay Gatsby sit in her white roadster
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8·4 In Daisy's white roadster, a young lieutenant gazes at her while she talks to Jordan
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8·5 Before her wedding, drunk Daisy pulls Tom's pearls from a wastebasket, gripping a letter
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8·6 Daisy's letter lies in the soap-dish as a sodden ball, falling apart like snow
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8·7 The story is over and the open victoria rolls slowly through Central Park in the hot violet dusk.
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8·8 Nick remembers the June night on the lawn in West Egg.
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8·9 In the open victoria at dusk, Nick turns to Jordan, stunned by how small Gatsby's request is.
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8·10 Night in Central Park: in the open victoria, Nick draws Jordan up close to his face a second time.
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Chapter 9 · 10 illustrations The Reunion at Tea
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9·1 At two in the morning, only Gatsby's mansion burns with light in dark, silent West Egg
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9·2 At two in the morning, Gatsby carelessly answers Nick's promise to invite Daisy to tea
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9·3 Daisy leans out of an open car under dripping lilacs, smiling at Nick in the rain
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9·4 Gatsby stands in a puddle on Nick's rainy doorstep with his hands sunk in his pockets.
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9·5 The stopped mantel clock tips over the edge of the shelf.
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9·6 After the rain, Gatsby sits quite still at the end of Nick's small sofa.
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9·7 Daisy buries her face in the bright heap of Gatsby's shirts and sobs.
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9·8 At the misty window, Daisy slips her arm through Gatsby's as he gazes at the grey Sound
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9·9 At the height of the reunion, bewilderment comes back into Gatsby's eyes.
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9·10 Nick stops in the doorway of the gilded music-room and looks back once.
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Chapter 10 · 12 illustrations Can't repeat the past? Of course you can!
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10·1 A wide view of Gatsby's huge mansion on a summer morning, Nick's bungalow beside it
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10·2 On Lake Superior's empty shore, 17-year-old James Gatz stands by a borrowed rowboat
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10·3 In a borrowed rowboat, barefoot James Gatz smiles up at Dan Cody on the Tuolomee
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10·4 Gatsby leans over the marble table and tells Tom Buchanan he knows his wife
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10·5 Gatsby gives Nick a hopeful, questioning look, wanting to accept the supper invitation
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10·6 Gatsby steps out, dressed to follow riders already vanishing under the August trees
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10·7 Daisy and Gatsby slip away from the party to sit close on Nick's steps for half an hour
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10·8 Under the white-plum tree, the film director stoops a final degree toward his Star.
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10·9 Daisy looks back from Gatsby's marble steps at the lit, empty doorway as a waltz plays
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10·10 An extreme close-up of Gatsby's face at the instant Nick says the past can't be repeated.
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10·11 Under the autumn moon in Louisville, Daisy Fay lifts her face to the young lieutenant's
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10·12 Deep in the August night, Nick's lips part as a half-remembered phrase almost forms.
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Chapter 11 · 11 illustrations Heat at the Buchanans’ and the Drive to Town
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11·1 On a Saturday night, Gatsby's mansion stands dark among West Egg's lit cottages
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11·2 Gatsby and Nick, in straw hats, wait on the threshold of the Buchanans' cool white hall
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11·3 Nick and Gatsby step out of the broiling noon into the Buchanans' dark, cool salon.
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11·4 With Tom gone for drinks, Daisy pulls Gatsby's face down to hers and says she loves him
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11·5 In the dim, rosy salon, Gatsby bends to shake the hand of Daisy's small daughter.
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11·6 On the Buchanans' veranda, Gatsby points across the bay to his house as Tom watches
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11·7 At the darkened luncheon table, Daisy and Gatsby gaze into each other's eyes as if alone
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11·8 At the darkened luncheon table, Tom Buchanan catches one unguarded look between his wife and Gatsby.
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11·9 On the drive, Gatsby looks up at Daisy's window and says her voice is full of money
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11·10 As Daisy frowns at Tom, an unfamiliar look passes over Gatsby's face
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11·11 Tom, Jordan and Nick drive off down the blazing drive in Gatsby's cream car.
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Chapter 12 · 11 illustrations Stop at Wilson's garage, road to the Plaza
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12·1 At midday the valley of ashes lies grey under a white glare.
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12·2 Three people crammed on the yellow car's front seat cross the valley of ashes
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12·4 Three people ride in the front seat of Gatsby's yellow car in hot, irritable silence.
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12·5 The yellow car skids to a stop in the dust under Wilson's sign.
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12·6 At Wilson's pump in the midday glare, Tom jerks round in the driver's seat.
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12·7 At Wilson's garage, Nick looks from the grey, hunched Wilson to Tom, flushed at the wheel
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12·8 Myrtle Wilson moves the upstairs curtain aside and stares down at the yellow car
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12·9 From behind a curtain above the garage, Myrtle Wilson stares down at the yellow car
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12·10 Tom Buchanan grips the wheel of the yellow car under the elevated's girders.
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12·11 At the wheel of the yellow car, Tom twists round to look for the blue coupé behind him
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12·12 Five people stand apart in a stifling Plaza Hotel parlour on a white-hot afternoon.
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Chapter 13 · 10 illustrations The Showdown in the Hotel Suite
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13·1 On the hottest afternoon of summer, the Plaza stands in a white-hot haze by Central Park
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13·2 Nick is relieved as Gatsby explains Oxford was offered to officers after the armistice
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13·3 In the stifling Plaza suite, Gatsby quietly tells Tom that his wife has never loved him
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13·4 Daisy looks toward Nick and Jordan for help that doesn't come
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13·5 Standing small in the Plaza suite, Daisy reluctantly says she never loved him
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13·6 Daisy sobs that she loved them both as Gatsby stands frozen beside her
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13·7 Daisy's "I loved you too" breaks Gatsby's five-year dream without a sound.
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13·8 For one instant in the stifling Plaza suite, Gatsby's polished mask drops away.
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13·10 The quarrel is over, and Daisy and Gatsby have left the stifling Plaza suite.
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13·11 In the cooling twilight, one small coupé crosses the huge dark span of the Queensboro Bridge.
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Chapter 14 · 10 illustrations Myrtle's death at the roadside garage
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14·1 The valley of ashes lies still in the late-afternoon heat.
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14·2 Michaelis finds George Wilson really sick, pale and shaking in the dusty garage office
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14·3 Shaking at his desk, Wilson tells Michaelis he has locked his wife in upstairs
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14·4 At dusk, Myrtle Wilson bursts into the road, arms up, shouting at oncoming headlights
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14·5 The car that killed Myrtle Wilson reaches the bend, red tail lights fading into the haze
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14·6 Myrtle's body lies in blankets on the garage worktable as Tom stands frozen over it
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14·9 Wilson cries an accusation from the office doorway, and every head turns toward him
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14·10 Tom Buchanan holds the collapsing Wilson upright and whispers the yellow car wasn't his
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14·11 Nick tells the sweating policeman they've come straight from New York
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14·12 Driving away from the garage at night, Tom Buchanan breaks down at the wheel of the coupé.
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Chapter 15 · 9 illustrations Gatsby's vigil in the moonlight
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15·1 East Egg lies silver and still under a high moon an hour after the crash.
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15·2 Jordan reads Nick's dislike, turns sharply and runs into the Buchanans' house
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15·3 On the dark Buchanan drive, Gatsby steps out of the bushes and calls Nick's name
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15·4 An extreme close-up of Nick's grey eyes in cold moonlight.
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15·5 Gatsby stands against the dark bushes in the moonlight in his glowing pink suit.
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15·6 Nick looks under the blind of the pantry window and sees Tom and Daisy at their kitchen table.
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15·7 Tom's heavy hand covers Daisy's beside cold fried chicken and two capped bottles of ale
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15·8 Late at night, Tom covers Daisy's hand over the untouched supper while she nods quietly
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15·9 Nick walks down the moonlit drive toward the waiting taxi.
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Chapter 16 · 10 illustrations The Last Night and the Pool
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16·1 Before dawn, Gatsby's dark mansion and Nick's bungalow sink into fog above the Sound
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16·2 On a starlit Louisville porch, Daisy turns toward Lieutenant Gatsby on the wicker settee
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16·3 Before going abroad, the young officer holds Daisy by the fire and kisses her hair
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16·4 At dawn, Gatsby stares far beyond the open window and says it was just personal
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16·5 In a day-coach vestibule, Gatsby reaches toward Louisville as it slips away at sunset
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16·6 On the marble steps, Gatsby breaks into a radiant smile at Nick's only compliment
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16·7 Michaelis's hand stops above a new silver dog-leash, the only thing in the drawer
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16·8 At dawn, Wilson presses his face to the window, staring at the pale eyes of Eckleburg
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16·9 Gatsby lies adrift on his mattress in the marble pool under a raw autumn sky.
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16·10 A limp hand hangs from the air mattress as a thin red thread curves across the water
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Chapter 17 · 11 illustrations Gatsby's Empty Funeral and Nick's Farewell to the East
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17·1 Nick steps back into the drawing-room, where officials he doesn't know stand around Gatsby's bier.
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17·2 Officials pull the sheet from Gatsby's still face as Nick stands frozen in the doorway
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17·3 Alone in the mansion hall, Nick tells a stranger on the Chicago line that Gatsby is dead
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17·4 In Gatsby's music-room, his father sits hunched on the canapé with a glass of milk
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17·5 Mr. Gatz rests a finger on young James Gatz's 1906 schedule in Hopalong Cassidy
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17·6 The funeral hour has passed in Gatsby's huge hall.
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17·7 A few people stand in the grey drizzle at Gatsby's open grave, beside a bare heap of wet clay.
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17·8 Nick Carraway stands in the quiet Manhattan sitting-room just after his last handshake with Jordan.
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17·9 On Fifth Avenue, Tom Buchanan stares at Nick in silence in front of the jeweller's lit window.
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17·10 Gatsby's beach at night is empty.
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17·11 A lone man sits on a moonlit beach, looking toward the tiny green light across the Sound
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