1. Long Island, from the air

2. 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 (4-5).

4. Little Neck Bay

5. Little Neck Bay Postcard – early 20th century

6. A contemporary picture of Little Neck Bay

7. Contemporary Pictures of Little Neck Bay To the east - sunrise To the west - sunset

8. Contemporary picture of Little Neck Bay, with coast of Great Neck in Background

9. Hotel de Ville – Normandy Contemporary picture – mayor’s offices…

10. A Possible Model for Gatsby’s Mansion http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Xnh7xU1ehnI/S3cJYcNdbVI/AAAAAAAAALs/oKRKqdlbJgo/s400/Pembroke2.jpg

11. A Possible Model for Gatsby’s Mansion http://www.kioli.org/longisland/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Oheka-Castle-Pic.jpg

12. “I lived at West Egg, the – well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them” (5).

13. Every Hierarchical system has its markers

14. http://www.bragg.army.mil/directo rates/dptms /PublishingI mages/class -a-uniform- wearing- guide--- male.jpg

15. American society is a hierarchy, and it too has its markers, though their significance might not be as clear as a general’s stars. For each of the following pairs (or triplets) choose the marker that indicates the higher status. In other words, which is “classier” (or “classiest”) – which denotes a higher position on the hierarchy? Which is “less fashionable” (Fitzgerald 5)?

16. Deep Sea Fishing or Fly Fishing

17. Sailboat or Motorboat

18. Cadillac Escalade or Mercedes E Class $72, 970 $51, 800

19. Old Persian Carpet or Wall to wall carpeting

20. Gravel Driveway or Asphalt Driveway

21. Soccer Fans or Tennis Spectators

22. College professor or high school teacher

23. The Oboe or The Trumpet

24. Beacon Hill, Boston, MA or The Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX

25. Scotch or Bourbon

26. Metropolitan Opera or Disneyworld

27. East Egg or West Egg

28. “…I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game” (6).

29. 1901 – Harvard – Yale Bowl

30. Yale Bowl – Nov. - 1913

31. 1910-20s – New Haven

32. New Haven 1910-1920s

33. Trench Warfare - WWI http://www.toptenz.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Battle-of-the-Somme-534x400.jpg

34. Trench Warfare - WWI http://greatwar.nl/students/papers/collins/manydead.jpg

35. “’Civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out Tom violently. ‘I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empire by this man Goddard?’” (12).

36. Northern Blvd – circa early 1930s http://www.dlnhs.org/littleneck/westmorelandindex.cfm

37. Little Neck Garage – 1920s http://www.dlnhs.org/littleneck/westmorelandindex.cfm

38. Northern Blvd - 1926

39. Little Neck LIRR Station – 1920s http://www.dlnhs.org/littleneck/westmorelandindex.cfm

40. “This was a permanent move, Daisy said over the telephone, but I didn’t believe it…” (6) http://www.museumoftechnology.org.uk/nimages/A0011_tn.jpg http://www.sparkmuseum.com/images/Telephone/1924%20WE%20102%20Round%20Base.JPG

41. 1922 Dodge (8)