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Position:Home>Arts & Humanities> What street was Tom's summer apartment on in The Great Gatsby?Question: What street was Tom's summer apartment on in The Great Gatsby?Just curious, I know it was either in the 140's or 150's in manhattan. anyone know? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Tom and Myrtle's apartment was on West 158th Street http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200041... "We went on, cutting back again over the Park toward the West Hundreds. At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses. Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood, Mrs. Wilson gathered up her dog and her other purchases and went haughtily in. "I'm going to have the McKees come up," she announced as we rose in the elevator. "And of course I got to call up my sister, too." The apartment was on the top floor--a small living room, a small dining room, a small bedroom and a bath. The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles. The only picture was an over-enlarged photograph, apparently..." |