According to a recent survey, one in four Americans didn’t read a book last year. As a public service, we look back on all the classics you only read the Cliffs Notes for.

With Fashion Week upon us, we thought it was a good time to look back on that 11th grade English favorite, The Great Gatsby.

Nick Carraway is narrator of The Great Gatsby and he’s a lot like Brandon Walsh in the first season of 90210. Like Brandon, Nick is a stock good guy character from Minnesota who is intrigued by the loose lifestyle of the coast. In Nick’s case, it’s the East coast, specifically West Egg, Long Island. West Egg has the hot parties, but the snobs from East Egg think it’s nouveau riche.

Continuing the 90210 theme, Nick quickly meets his Dylan, Jay Gatsby. Like Dylan, Gatsby is charming and mysterious. Just as Dylan had his Brenda, Gatsby has his Daisy, who is incidentally related to Nick. The two don’t have the twin connection, but Daisy is Nick’s cousin, and his only friend when he moves to New York.

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