The Great Gatsby is fiction—and F. Scott Fitzgerald was apparently not overly concerned with accuracy while working on the storyline across the pond in France and Italy—but the setting is indeed the New York of 1922, a city the narrator, Nick Carraway, likes for "the racy adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye." Do check out Curbed NY's map of 19 real-world NYC counterparts to locations in the classic novel. [Curbed NY]
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