In his correspondence with his editor Max Perkins, F. Scott Fitzgerald waffled between Trimalchio, Trimalchio’s Banquet, Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires, The High-Bouncing Lover, Gold-Hatted Gatsby, Gatsby, On the Road to West Egg, Incident at West Egg, and Trimalchio in West Egg, before finally settling on The Great Gatsby. What’s so fascinating about these working titles is to speculate on how the legacy of Gatsby (and Fitzgerald) would be different if it had a different name.
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