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a man who threw parties for a hundred just to be seen by one.
means a self-invented millionaire who builds an entire empire of light and noise to lure back a love he lost to money and time.
from from f. scott fitzgerald's 1925 novel the great gatsby, itself pulled from jazz-age long island and fitzgerald's own aching, class-obsessed courtship of zelda.
real namejames gatz, reinvented at seventeen
green lightsymbolizes daisy, and the unreachable future
first editionsold poorly, now worth six figures
narrator's verdictcalled him better than the whole rotten bunch