Gatsbyesque

English 2025 April 10 Etymology thumb|Actors Florence Eldridge as Daisy Buchanan and James Rennie as Jay Gatsby in the first stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby in 1926. From en Gatsby -esque suffix meaning ‘resembling’ forming adjectives, from the surname of Jay Gatsby, the titular character of the novel The Great Gatsby (1925) by the American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940). Pronunciation en /ˈɡætsbɪˌɛsk/ /ˌɡætsbɪˈɛsk/ RP,GA en En-us-Gatsbyesque.ogg GA en ɛsk 3 one pronunciation en Gats by esque Adjective Suggestive of Jay Gatsby, the titular character of the novel The Great Gatsby (1925): enigmatic; extravagant; nouveau riche, etc. en Gatsbyan<q:uncommon> Gatsbyish 19 January 1970 Julie Baumgold Carterandamanda: Learning the New York Lesson Clay S[chuette] Felker 3 3 27 https://books.google.com/books?id=9uICAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA27 3 And meanwhile there was in him Carter Burden a theatrical hunger; the Gatsbyesque demand: "I was very conscious of stars." en 19 May 1980 Phil Ponebshek Battle for Berths to Britain Charles L. Creesy w:Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton, N.J. w:Princeton University Press 18 https://books.google.com/books?id=uRJbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA19-PA18 1 0149-9270 2436114 During the first half of the century, Princeton and Cornell joined forces every third and fourth years for home-and-away dual meets with the two English schools Oxford University and Cambridge University. It was a sort of Gatsbyesque ideal, featuring a long trip on a luxury liner, and a classic mile matchup between Jack Lovelock of Cambridge and Bill Bonthron '34 even produced a world mile record by the former. en 1995 w:Tom Engelhardt X Marks the Spot The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation New York, N.Y. w:Basic Books part II (Containments 1945–1962) 92 https://archive.org/details/endofvictorycult00enge/page/92/mode/1up 978-0-465-01984-7 There was a Gatsbyesque quality to this relatively poor Midwestern boy George Frost Kennan who recreated himself as an aristocratic, European-oriented, conservative member of America's leadership class yet never lost a sense of belonging. en 2021 Amanda Frost Citizen Suffragist You are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers Boston, Mass. w:Beacon Press 80 https://books.google.com/books?id=cxLfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80 978-0-8070-5142-9 A perpetual bachelor, his named popped up with some frequency in the society pages of the New York papers. Effortlessly, it seemed, Peter Gordon Mackenzie had propelled himself from a jute trader on a gloomy island in the Outer Hebrides to a life of Gatsbyesque splendor at the height of the Gilded Age. Translations suggestive of Jay Gatsby enigmatic extravagant nouveau riche Finnish: fi Gatsbyn kaltainen Macedonian: mk Further reading Jay Gatsby en eponyms terms derived from fiction