I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I never saw this great-uncle, but I’m supposed to look like him—with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in father’s office.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Merriam-Webster
— a male parent
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Macmillan
— your male parent. People often call their father Dad or, especially if they are young children, Daddy. In the past, people often called their father Father or Papa
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Other Word Forms
fathered
fathering
fathers
Usage
10 uses of ‘father’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald