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Great Gatsby Setting Map

By gabecha
  • Buchanan's house

    Buchanan's house
    "a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay"
  • East Egg

    East Egg
    old money, aristocratic
  • Gatsbys House

    Gatsbys House
    "a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden."
  • Hotel in new york

    Hotel in new york
    "a swell suite"
  • long island sound

    long island sound
    most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere
  • nicks house

    nicks house
    "weather-beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month,"
  • railroad tracks/motor road + Valley of ashes

    railroad tracks/motor road + Valley of ashes
    Raildroad tracks:
    About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. Valley of ashes:
    fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens;
  • T.J. Ecklburg Billboard

    T.J. Ecklburg Billboard
    blue and gigantic—their irises are one yard
    high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose
  • West Egg

    West Egg
    new money, "new rich"
  • Wilsons Garage

    Wilsons Garage
    The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.