The Great Gatsby: Chapter V
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VOCABULARY
QUESTIONS
NOTES
Kant at his church steeple
The German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was said to have been in the habit of looking at a steeple when he was thinking.
drug business
Gatsby owned drugstores; he did not deal in hard drugs. Between 1919 and 1933 the Eighteenth Amendment prohibited sale of alcoholic beverages. However, drugstores were permitted to sell whiskey by prescription, and some of them were fronts for bootlegging.