Setting Essay

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"I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it."

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"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

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"Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water"

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"The front was broken up by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold."

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"A fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens."

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"The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleberg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night."

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"He stretched his arms out towards the dark water... distinguished nothing except a single green light."

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"In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."