The New York Social Climber's Handbook

Teaching you everything you really came to Manhattan to learn

Better know a social climber: Jay Gatsby

Name: Jay Gatsby

Origins: Midwestern

Calling Cards: Beautiful shirts, nefariously gained wealth, obsession with adolescent love, mint juleps, heightened sensitivity to the promises of life 

Bête Noire: Princeton polo players; green light at the end of the dock; swimming pools

Social Climbing Coup de Grâce: Casually mentioning time spent at Oxford