Main Title: Great Gatsby, The
Secondary Title if Any:
Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
First Published: 1925
Publisher Used for Citing: Scribner
Type: Fiction
Period: 20th Century

The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.


Please log in to help tag and rate the similes

Featured Simile

It looks peaceful, like machinery does after you have watched it and listened to it for a long time.

-- As I Lay Dying - Faulkner, William - 1930