The celebration of wealth in The Great Gatsby

The pages of The Great Gatsby are suffused with romance and dusted with sexual implication, but perhaps the most intensely and disturbingly erotic scene — the one that distils the novel's seductive blend of desire and sorrow — involves clothes. Showing off his mansion to Daisy Buchanan, the great love of his life, and Nick Carraway, his diffident, dazzled neighbour, Jay Gatsby opens a cabinet in which his shirts are "piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high."

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