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Gatsby's "West Egg" and the "Slender Riotous Island"

F. Scott
Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby while living in Great Neck. His narrator,
Nick Carraway, called Long Island "that slender riotous island." Back
in the 1920s, in contrast to Gatsby's East Egg and West Egg of Gold Coast
mansions, much of Long Island was agricultural, with seaside settlements
attracting summer visitors. Natalie Naylor, Ph.D. discusses this pre-suburban Long
Island that saw the dawn of aviation, rumrunners and Ku Klux Klan parades.









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