Sunday, December 01, 2024

This quote is such a product of its time...⏳.

"The relationship between waste and wealth can change how we read the last comments Nick offers about Tom and Daisy: 'They were careless people,' he writes. 'They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.' We are still cleaning up that mess. In many ways, we have not even begun."

~ John Marsh

"Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires..."

https://lithub.com/among-the-ash-heaps-and-millionaires-how-the-great-gatsby-changed-the-landscape-of-new-york-city/

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