![]() Ella lived in an abandoned theatre among the discarded costumes and it was there that Nick spent his leave. Nick was sitting in the café with Ella – a young Frenchwoman whom he had first seen on the streets of Paris trying unsuccessfully to sell picture frames. In an opening sentence reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway, the author places Nick in Paris on leave from fighting at the front during World War I – A heavy morning fog draped across Paris and there was the corner café. As Farris Smith says, there is almost nothing about Nick himself in The Great Gatsby and so he decided to write Nick’s story. ![]() Of his third reading of The Great Gatsby, Michael Farris Smith said ‘it was one of the most surreal experiences of my life’ which ultimately led him to writing this prequel. ![]() The latter novel is said by some to be a contender for ‘the great American novel’ and by others more simply as a literary masterwork. Nick Carraway – the eponymous protagonist of Nick – is also the narrator of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. ![]()
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