Jay Gatsby

English Etymology From the character of the novel The Great Gatsby. Noun Jay Gatsbys An ambitious, upper-class and wealthy man. en We had spent the few hours since his death investigating his wealth. He was a born accumulator, like the Jay Gatsby of northern Spain. He owned land in Álava, Viscaya, Cantabria, Guipúzcoa, and Burgos. He had vineyards in the Rioja Alavesa and Navarre. Although he was sixty-seven at the time of his death, Antón Lasaga showed no intention of giving up control of his business. 39 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Lords_of_Time/U74zEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+jay+gatsby+of%22+-%22great+gatsby%22&pg=PA39&printsec=frontcover The Lords of Time Nick Caistor Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Eva García Sáenz 2021 en Before I drifted off, I considered that with all my money, I surely could have bought a big house in town and filled it with party people nightly. I could have been the Jay Gatsby of Fondy. 133 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Book_of_Roland/VeGo9c6HQzYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+jay+gatsby+of%22+-%22great+gatsby%22&pg=PA133&printsec=frontcover Dog Ear Publishing The Book of Roland Richard Curtis Hauschild 2012 en Sixties-style idealism has long since given way to pragmatism. These aspirants are Jay Gatsbys in training, who regard an elite pedigree as their ticket to the new aristocracy. 12 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Shakespeare_Einstein_and_the_Bottom_Line/p4_FysV_X8UC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22jay+gatsbys%22+-%22great+gatsby%22&pg=PA12&printsec=frontcover Harvard University Press Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education David L. Kirp 2009 en terms derived from fiction eponyms en Fictional characters