Self-described "Oxford man" of fiction

Usage examples of gatsby.

That description of Gatsby by Nick Carraway -- of Scott, by Fitzgerald -- might just as well be of J.

A brown Jay Gatsby -- not black and with a head that would never be white: he moved from the very beginning with the same instinct that drove Gatsby -- an endless fascination with that green light at the end of the pier.

For a moment I thought of Jay Gatsby standing at the top of the stairs of his Long Island mansion watching his party guests.

Emma thought of Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan transplanted to a Texas honky-tonk.

I skirted the parking lot, trying to imagine TJ behind the wheel of one of these surreyed golf carts-sun-kissed and healthy, wearing crisp Jay Gatsby whites, on his way to enjoying the first martini of the day.

Natalie focused on one of the lights, thinking about the fullness of her life, about everything she had to be grateful for, and yet, like Gatsby staring at that green light across the water, she yearned for something that could never he.

She rereads The Great Gatsby every few years, always gleaning something new from it.