It is the summer of 1922 and Nick keeps a record of some of Gatsby's summer guests on a railroad schedule. Rumors proliferate about Gatsby's strange life. Now he is a bootlegger. Now he is a nephew of Von Hindenburg. He is still a murderer, but now for different reasons.
There are endless guests. Some guests are from the East Egg side, like the Chester Beckers and the Leeches from East Egg, the snobbish Blackbucks, the Ismays and the Chrysties (whose wife attended with Hubert Auerback. Clarence Endive has a fight in the garden. Edgar Beaver's hair turns completely white during the summer. Ripley Snell gets his hand run over by Mrs. Ulysses Swett before returning to the penitentiary.
Others are from the West Egg the Poles and the Catlips, the Bernbergs and Mulreadys. Klipspringer.....
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