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23 unusual facts about the Great Gatsby


1924 in Wales

Freddie Welsh meets and spars with F. Scott Fitzgerald; the encounter would eventually give rise to a theory that Fitzgerald used Welsh as a model for The Great Gatsby.

Baishou Dance

This dance is referred to near the end of Chapter 3 of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby:

Benny Higgins

He has many favourite authors but he quotes his favourite book being The Great Gatsby.

Dan Cody

:Dan Cody is also the name of a character in the novel The Great Gatsby.

Dylan Greenberg

Dylan is often credited as the inventor of the "Grobn'm" film movement and in 2013 released their 18 minute short film "The Great Reverse Gratsby," a parody of The Great Gatsby set to be released on the same day as the Leonardo DiCaprio film.

Edith Cummings

Her literary fame, however, would endure because in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby, the character of Jordan Baker was modeled directly after Cummings, just as the character Daisy Buchanan was modeled after Cummings' friend King.

In 1915, Cummings met a young student at Princeton named F. Scott Fitzgerald, who had fallen in love with her friend Ginevra and would later immortalize them both.

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park

The park was created from the former dumping ground characterized as "a valley of ashes" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

Flushing River

The pollution was chronicled by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, wherein Nick Carraway observed the "valley of ashes" on his train ride between Manhattan and Long Island.

George Remus

It has been claimed that he was the inspiration for the title character Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Great Gatsby curve

The name of the curve refers, somewhat ironically, to Jay Gatsby (born Gatz), the character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.

Green-light

In the novel The Great Gatsby, a green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan's dock in the old money East Egg is barely visible across the lake from Jay Gatsby's mansion in nouveau riche West Egg.

Halbwelt Kultur

During May and June 2013, the show was incorporated into Ruby In The Dust's production of The Great Gatsby musical at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London.

Hearts a Mess

The song also appears on the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann's 2013 film adaptation of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby.

Moses Taft

In later years after 1910, this historic mill became known as Wheelock Mill or Stanley Woolen, and then became part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, and was also used in the production of several movies including Oliver's Story, and The Great Gatsby.

Newsboy cap

Sometimes also referred to as the: Baker Boy, Apple Cap, Eight Piece Cap, Eight Panel, Cabbie, Jay Gatsby (from The Great Gatsby), Fisherman's Cap, Pageboy, Applejack Hat and Lundberg Stetson.

Order of Prince Danilo I

In the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby, the main character, Jay Gatsby, was also awarded the Order of Prince Danilo I "For Valor Extraordinary".

Seelbach Hotel

The hotel was quickly regarded among the finest hotels in the United States and throughout its long history has been frequented by many notable Americans — for instance F. Scott Fitzgerald, who took inspiration from the Seelbach for a hotel in The Great Gatsby.

The Passing of the Great Race

Author F. Scott Fitzgerald made a lightly disguised reference to Grant in The Great Gatsby.

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

In the American novel The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the rich man Tom Buchanan says that "civilization's going to pieces", based upon his reading of The Rise of the Coloured Empires, by "this man Goddard"; allusions to Lothrop Stoddard's book of scientific racism, and to Henry H. Goddard, a prominent American psychologist and eugenicist.

Tommy Hitchcock, Jr.

Author F. Scott Fitzgerald modeled two characters in his books on Tommy Hitchcock, Jr.: Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby (1925) and the Tommy Barban character in Tender Is the Night (1934).

White Bay Power Station

It has recently been used as a filming site for The Great Gatsby

Witchy Woman

In his novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald embodies Zelda's uninhibited and reckless personality in the character of Daisy Buchanan.


Camp Taylor, Louisville

F. Scott Fitzgerald was stationed at Camp Taylor and mentions it in his novel The Great Gatsby.

Christopher Scott Cherot

Mr. Cherot also directed G (2002 film), loosely based on The Great Gatsby, as well as The Male Groupie (2004), Andre Royo's Big Scene (2004), and the BET reality series College Hill' (2004)', an urban version of MTV's The Real World, and edited the first season of LOGO's Noah's Arc (2006).

John Stewart Wynne aka John Wynne

Wynne has also produced and directed over one hundred audio books, including The Phantom of the Opera performed by F. Murray Abraham, William Styron reading his Darkness Visible (memoir), Christopher Reeve performing F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and John F. Kennedy, Jr. reading his father’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Profiles in Courage.

Nicholas I of Montenegro

King Nikolas and the Kingdom of Montenegro are remembered briefly in F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby, where its eponymous main character reminisces on how for his accomplishments and heroic endeavors during the First World War the King confers unto him the highest honor of the Kingdom the Orderi di Danilo.

Nick Lucas

In 1974, his renditions of the songs, "I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston", "When You and I Were Seventeen" and "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" were featured on the soundtrack of Paramount Pictures' The Great Gatsby (1974) with Robert Redford.

Peter Taub

In 2008, the MCA Stage hosted the Chicago-debut of New York-based Elevator Repair Service and its performance of Gatz, a seven-hour reading and reenactment of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

Studio 360

The American Icons series attempts to understand lasting American cultural icons such as The Great Gatsby and Kind of Blue.

Westover School

Ginevra King Pirie (Class of 1917, deceased), Chicago socialite who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's inspiration for the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby.

Willets Point, Queens

The "Valley of Ashes" described in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby is said to have been inspired by Willets Point.