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