It's been over four years since the 2013 version of The Great Gatsby was released in theaters nationwide. I'd been looking forward to the movie for a long time since the novel is my favorite book and I'm a devoted fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary summation of the Jazz Age. A week before the movie came out, I'd made up my mind to hit all the antique shops I could find in Long Island and that's when I chanced on this major zinger—a literal jamboree of apple juice Bakelite with a thick red stripe lumped between a galaxy of glitter. Massive and celebratory, the button encapsulates one of Jay Gatsby's over-the-top shebangs in the fictional town of West Egg. A surviving token from last century's legendary era of excess, this mega-sparkler is my one and only Great Gatsby button.
-Sherbert McGee
“It was one of those rare smiles
with a quality of eternal reassurance
in it,
that you may come across four or five times in life.”
―F. Scott Fitzgerlad, The Great Gatsby
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