Gatsby: A Memoir of a Lifetime

Gatsby represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. Gatsby turned out all right at the end. It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this Middlewestern city for three generations. The carways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we're descended from the dukes of the Clue. But the actual founder of my line was my grandfather's brother, who came here in 51, sent a substitute to the Civil