Table of Contents
Preface xi
Prologue: The Riviera: September 1925 1
Chapter 1 Myrtle Wilson: 1924 3
Chapter 2 Ain't We Got Fun: 1920 7
Chapter 3 Flat as One of Aunt Jemima's Pancakes: 1923 19
Chapter 4 Rich Girls Don't Marry Poor Boys: 1911 27
Chapter 5 The Rough Crossing: 1924 37
Chapter 6 Last of the Belles: 1917 43
Chapter 7 The Left Bank: 1924 49
Chapter 8 An Oxford Man: 1910 55
Chapter 9 How To Live on Practically Nothing: 1924 65
Chapter 10 A Northern Mans Dream of the South: 1918 71
Chapter 11 Cliff Diving: 1924 81
Chapter 12 The Sensible Thing: 1918 87
Chapter 13 Passion at First Glance: 1924 95
Chapter 14 Repeating the Past: 1918 99
Chapter 15 A Playmate: 1924 109
Chapter 16 The American Dream: 1920 113
Chapter 17 Jozan: 1924 123
Chapter 18 A Perfect Fool: 1921 129
Chapter 19 Smooth as Two Cats: 1924 139
Chapter 20 A Beautiful Little Fool: 1921 145
Chapter 21 Jumping off the Cliff: 1924 151
Chapter 22 The Beautiful and the Damned: 1922 155
Chapter 23 You Never Loved Him: 1924 161
Chapter 24 Absolution: 1922 167
Chapter 25 The Foul Dust: 1924 177
Chapter 26 The Confusion of a Simple Mind: 1924 183
Chapter 27 The Death Car: 1924 187
Chapter 28 That Awful Thing: 1924 195
Chapter 29 Waiting for Gatsby: 1925 203
Chapter 30 The Germs of Bitterness: 1925 209
Chapter 31 Finding Gatsby: 1940 215
Chapter 32 Writing Gatsby 221
Epilogue 229
Notes 237
Bibliography 263
Index 269
