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I never saw this great-uncle, but I'm supposed to look like
him - with special reference to the rather hard-boiled
painting that hangs in father's office. I graduated from New
Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father,
and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic
migration known as the Great War. I enjoyed the counter-raid
so thoroughly that I came back restless. Instead of being
the warm centre of the world, the Middle West now seemed
like the ragged edge of the universe - so I decided to go East
and learn the bond business. Everybody I knew was in the
bond business, so I supposed it could support one more single
man. All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were
choosing a prep school for me, and finally said, 'Why -
ye-es,' with very grave, hesitant faces. Father agreed to
finance me for a year, and after various delays I came East,
permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.
F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1,
Everyman's Library, pp.4-5