F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940
Birthday: September 24
Death: December 21
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.
source: The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)
topic: Father, Mean, Son, Platonic, Long Island, Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Gatsby, Great Gatsby Important, Great Gatsby Nick
