Both Uses of
Long Island Sound
in
The Great Gatsby
- Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.
p. 5.1Long Island Sound = passage from the Atlantic Ocean to New York Harbor (between Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Long Island)
- But young men didn't — at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't — drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound.
p. 49.5 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(Long Island Sound) passage from the Atlantic Ocean to New York Harbor (between Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Long Island)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)