Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water… And so F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby transports us to the Gold Coast of Long Island, into the timeless elegance it embodies to this very day. Of course, while East Egg is the stuff of fiction, its real-world inspiration in Sands Point is very real. It may still feel like the stuff of dreams, truth be told.
