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"a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay"
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old money, aristocratic
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"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."
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"a swell suite"
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most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere
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"weather-beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month,"
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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; -
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 -
new money, "new rich"
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The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.
