The Great Gatsby: Chapter VI
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QUESTIONS
NOTES
underground pipe-line to Canada
One of the myths of Prohibition was that alcohol was being piped into the United States from Canada.
Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since Seventy-five
The Comstock lode, the first major US deposit of silver ore, was discovered in Nevada in 1859. The Yukon, the northwestern most territory of Canada, experienced the Klondike gold rush beginning in 1896.
Barbary Coast
The Barbary Coast is the area of North Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic; but it is uncertain whether Cody's yacht was capable of transatlantic voyages. During the nineteenth century the San Fran¬cisco honky-tonk district was called the Barbary Coast; it is possi¬ble that Fitzgerald was referring to this destination.
Madame de Maintenon
Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719). Madame de Maintenon rose from a prison birth to become the most powerful European Monarch’s, Louis XIV of France, most trusted advisor and wife. She was at first Louis XIV’s consort and then wife, through a secret marriage, since members of different classes could not legally marry each other.