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20 February, 14:32

Read this excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby:

"About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a cerain desolate area of land." Where does the story most likely take place?

A.

a borough of New York City

B.

a rural area that's still accessible to New York

C.

in rural upstate New York

D.

in New York City