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| Country residence of basically everyone in House of Mirth. |
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| Bachelor building where Selden lives. |
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| Selden's interest is in collecting Americana. |
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| George from House of Mirth is dispeptic. |
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| The man with whom Lily was once in love. |
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| That which Bertha tells Gryce Lily has in her closet. |
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| Status game on which Lily gambles. |
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| That which Mrs. Haffen offers to Lily to use as extortion against Selden. |
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| Where Carry Fisher invites Lily. |
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| Name of the ship on which Lily goes cruising. |
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| Among the European royalty with whom Lily associates. |
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| The Hotel in which Lily works as a secretary. |
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| The job Lily takes when she has nothing else to do. |
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| met Lily when Lily saved her from an illness while participating in Gerty's charity organization. Although Nettie was sick, she has totally recovered, and is enjoying a successful marriage with her husband and their newborn child. Nettie, seeing that Lily is sick, takes her home to her house, where Lily warms up in the kitchen while Nettie tells Lily of her success in working her way up from the gutter to a happy family life. |
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| The Rise of the Colored Empires |
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| Book that Tom tells Nick about in Gatsby. Racist. |
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| Author of The Rise of the Colored Empires, which is a book that Tom tells Nick about in Gatsby. Racist. |
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| The things that look out on the valley in between the Eggs in Gatsby. |
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| Man at Gatsby's party. Named Owl Eyes by Nick. |
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| Gatsby shows this to Nick to prove that he was really a war hero. |
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| The World Series that Gatsby's friend rigs. |
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| Daisy cries over Gatsby's shirts. |
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| The thing at the end of Daisy's dock that Gatsby stares at a lot. |
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| The song played at Gatsby's. |
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| The guy who travels to see Gatsby to find out his real history, and fails. |
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| The mogul whom Gatsby saves. |
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| The painting Lily poses as. |
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| That which Gatsby is lying on when he's shot by Wilson. |
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| Angels in America funeral. |
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| Dead woman in Angels funeral. |
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| Louis and Pryor's cat that's missing in Angels. |
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| Mark of the Angel in Angels, duh. |
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| The experimental AIDS drug that Roy tries. |
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| Appears in Angels during the Belize-Lewis discussion. |
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| That which Janie wears when she's free. |
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| That which Nanny doesn't want Janie to become. Starks later buys a 2nd mule. |
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| Nanny's daughter with her Master in Eyes. |
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| Starks puts this on a pedestal. Literally and figuratively. |
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| That which Starks buys for Janie. |
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| That which Starks makes Janie wear so she does not tempt other men. |
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| That which descends on the dead mule in Eyes. |
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| Janie makes a mistake when cutting this down in the store. Starks mocks her for it in front of the customer. Janie replies by insulting Starks, so he beats her. |
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| That which Tea Cake buys from Janie's store. |
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| Where Tea Cake and Janie go. The everglades. |
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| The lake on which there's a hurricane in Eyes. |
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| During the flood, Janie grabs at a cow and dog, for safety. The dog bites at her. The dog is rabid, and gives rabies to Tea Cake when he saves Janie. |
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| That which Janie plans to plant in memory of Tea Cake. |
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| Snows of Kilamanjaro. Crashed plane. |
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| Whimpering, laughing, human-eating creature at the end of Kilimanjaro. |
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| Where the lost people try to make camp in Kilamanjaro. |
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| That which supposedly spoiled Harry's leg in Kilimanjaro |
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| Metaphor in Clean Well-Lighted Place. |
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| From Clean Well-Lighted Place. On a soldier's collar. Symbol of youth. |
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| The only nature in the bar in Clean Well-Lighted Place. |
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| "Many must have it." Artistry, etc. Clean Well-Lighted Place. |
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| Book read to the boy in A Day's Wait. |
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| Author of book read to the boy in A Day's Wait. |
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| Fathers and Sons. The main character describes this sign leading him to make a turn off of Main Street. |
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| Comparison to Nick's father in Fathers and Sons. |
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| A man who has sex with animals. Father-son conversation in Fathers and Sons. |
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| Arrested for Mashing in Fathers and Sons. |
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| The blend of nature and mankind. Gets shot in Fathers and Sons. |
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| The type of indians Nick hangs out with in Fathers and Sons. |
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| Gerty Farish's eyes are described by Lily as this color in House of Mirth. |
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| Eyes Were Watching God. When Janie marries Tea Cake, and he leaves her to go to the party, everyone tells her she's going to end up like Annie Tyler. |
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| Mrs. Pennyston takes this as nerve medicine when she's freaked out by Lily's gambling debts. |
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| House of Mirth. What Selden calls Gerty Farish. |
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| In Gatsby, Tom and Daisy are eating chicken and ignoring the fact that they just killed somebody. |
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| The guy who lives in Gatsby's house and plays the piano does them. |
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| Eyes Were Watching God. When she's in the courtroom, having been charged with killing Tea Cake, Tea Cake's friends are in the back swaying with palm leaves. |
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| Eyes Were Watching God. When she's having her sexual awakening at the pear tree, she's described as having "snowy virginity." |
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| In House of Mirth. During the Tableau Vivant description, Lily is described as looking like a captured Dryad. |
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| Lily's seal on her letters in House of Mirth. |
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| Daisy says this to her child. Ignoring the fact that her child is reality. In Gatsby. |
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| Turtle. They're always eating it in House of Mirth. It's a luxury item. |
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| The band in Eyes when they're in the muck. |
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| Logan makes Janie chop them during their marriage. |
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| Secondary social class that Lily joins when kicked out of her first one. |
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| Tom gets this for Myrtle as a way of apologizing. |
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| On one of the paths in In Another Country there's a woman selling chestnuts that are freshly roasted on the path. |
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| Fratellanza and abnegazione |
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| That which the narrator's papers are written with in In Another Country. |
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| The Café in In Another Country. |
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| The last city Nick had been in in A Way You'll Never Be. |
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| On the left side of the road in A Way You'll Never Be, the mulberry leaves shield guns hidden in the grass. |
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| That which (physically) sets Nick apart in A Way You'll Never Be. |
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| The American Grasshopper/Locust |
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| Nick's rant in A Way You'll Never Be. |
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| Everyone drinks the same thing, a gimlet, in The Short Happy Life of Francis McComber. |
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| Representative of Nature in The Short Happy Life of Francis McComber. |
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| Rose-colored Sun-proofed Shirt |
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| Representative of tourism in the Short Happy Life... |
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| He's immasculated. From Snows of Kilimanjaro. |
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| The expression by safariers when the safari goes bad. From Short Happy Life... |
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| The language spoken in the part of Africa where the safari is taking place in The Short Happy Life... |
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| Empty ritual in House of Mirth. |
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| Thursday Afternoon in March |
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| Louis's idea of an afterlife in Angels. |
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| Breathing, sweating organ |
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