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Guest Column: Why Animals Now?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Marianne Dekoven
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Myrtle Wilson, Tom Buchanan's working-class lover in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, wants “one of those police dogs” as an ornament “for the apartment,” because “they are nice to have” (27). Tom, Myrtle, and our narrator, Nick Carraway, have just arrived at Penn Station and gotten into a taxi, in the novel's second chapter. Myrtle boarded the train in Queens, site of her home in the Eliotic “valley of ashes,” joining Nick and Tom on the rail commute from their respective class-bound Long Island Eggs, upper East and nouveau West, into the city that is “built with a wish out of non-olfactory money” (69).

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PMLA , Volume 124 , Issue 2 , March 2009 , pp. 361 - 369
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2009

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