MeganRitter

At first I thought that maybe there was a possibility that this wasn't an oddity in the 1920s. At first I suspected that this maybe this was, if not totally normal in the 1920s, at least an occasional practice. I went hunting on Google, using roughly nineteen thousand sifferent search terms, and could find nothing to indicate this was at all an accepted pratice of the 1920s. So at least I'm comforted by the knowledge that Wolfshiem was a freak in his own time too. Fitzgerald doesn't often dive into exaggerations of reality to make his point, but this time it works very well. Wolfshiem is involved in the same shady business deals that Gatsby is, but the cuff buttons establish him as someone several steps beyond Gatsby on the road to Hell.