One character in this novel feels a special connection to Jay Gatsby, but only because he's also "in love not with Daisy but with the bank." That man's wife, Pamela, is descended from South African colonists but pretends to be a real Englishwoman. The book opens on Constance Morgan's last day at the office, where she dreams about Mr. Rosenbaum's voice coming from the tennis courts. The narrator was a neighbor of Sidney Bacon and his wife, while living on Bleecker Street in New York. The sixth chapter features an argument during Art Night between university President Dwight Robbins and the protagonist, the novelist Gertrude Johnson, who was allegedly based on Mary McCarthy. The novel's settin
One character in this novel feels a special connection to Jay Gatsby, but only because he's also "in love not with Daisy but with the bank." That man's wife, Pamela, is descended from South African colonists but pretends to be a real Englishwoman. The book opens on Constance Morgan's last day at the office, where she dreams about Mr. Rosenbaum's voice coming from the tennis courts. The narrator was a neighbor of Sidney Bacon and his wife, while living on Bleecker Street in New York. The sixth chapter features an argument during Art Night between university President Dwight Robbins and the protagonist, the novelist Gertrude Johnson, who was allegedly based on Mary McCarthy. The novel's setting of Benton College was based on Sarah Lawrence College, where the author taught. FTP, name this only novel written by Randall Jarrell.  
One character in this novel feels a special connection to Jay Gatsby, but only because he's also "in love not with Daisy but with the bank."
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