Meaning of Gatsbyesque | Babel Free

Definitions

Suggestive of Jay Gatsby, the titular character of the novel The Great Gatsby (1925): enigmatic; extravagant; nouveau riche, etc.

Examples

“And meanwhile there was in him [Carter Burden] a theatrical hunger; the Gatsbyesque demand⟳: "I was very conscious of stars."”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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