All 3 Uses
The Great Gatsby
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
(Edited)
- It is that dine in the spring term when the minds of the Grade 13 girls are elsewhere, and I reminded them that—yesterday—we had not traveled sufficiently far in our perusal of Chapter Three of The Great Gatsby; that the class had bogged down in a mire of interpretations regarding the "quality of eternal reassurance" in Gatsby's smile; and that we'd wasted more valuable time trying to grasp the meaning of Jordan Baker exhibiting "an urban distaste for the concrete."
p. 326.3The Great Gatsby = novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald of the gilded emptiness of the Jazz Age
- They know what's going on in The Great Gatsby, and they know what should be done to Ronald Reagan's rotten administration, too!
p. 328.4 *
- I restricted my observations to The Great Gatsby.
p. 328.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(The Great Gatsby) novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald of the gilded emptiness of the Jazz Age; regarded by some as the Great American Novel and certainly in the American canon (1925)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)