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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

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by Churchwell, Sarah


  Wall Street Crash of 1929, 133

  Walpole, Hugh, 247

  The Waste Land (Eliot), xvi, 84, 130, 168–70, 214

  Weber, Peggy, 317

  Wharton, Edith, 130, 208, 305–6

  “What I Think and Feel at 25” (Fitzgerald), 25

  Whiskey Gap, 194

  Whistler, James McNeil, 161

  White, Bouck, 196

  White, William Allen, 262–63

  White Bear Lake Resort, 9

  Whiteman, Paul, 161, 209, 229

  white supremacist myth, 132, 155, 201–2

  Wilson, Edmund “Bunny,” xvii, 10, 11, 18–19, 27, 30–31, 31, 32, 40, 45, 59, 62, 74, 76, 78, 82, 83, 96, 107, 110–11, 118, 125–26, 165, 167–68, 176–77, 180, 213–14, 225, 226–27, 246, 267, 268–69, 286–87, 298, 299, 305, 324, 341

  Wilson, George (character), 37, 85–86, 232, 241, 255–56, 281–82, 290, 302, 303, 328

  Wilson, Myrtle (character), 65–66, 67, 68, 110, 113, 115–16, 138–39, 232–33, 241–42, 255–56, 281–82, 285, 290, 291, 302–3, 328

  “Winter Dreams” (Fitzgerald), xv, 142, 307

  Wolfshiem, Meyer (character), xxiv, 130, 135, 136

  women, rights and roles of, 190–91

  women’s colleges, 210

  Woolf, Virginia, 16, 57, 81

  Woollcott, Alec, 75, 94, 164, 204

  Woollcott, Margaret, 94

  World Series of 1919, 89–90

  Yeats, William Butler, xxi

  Youth (Conrad), 171–72

  Zelda (Milford), 166–67

  Ziegfeld, Florenz, 170

 

 

 


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