*Parts of New Jersey, as you know, are under water, and other parts are under continual surveillance by the authorities. But here and there lie patches of garden country dotted with old-fashioned frame mansions, which have wide shady porches and a red swing on the lawn. And perhaps, on the widest and shadiest of the porches, there is even a hammock left over from the hammock days, stirring gently in a Victorian wind.
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What gives me the initial thrill is the double use of "under." And then I hang around to learn more about the countryside and the mansions, and then about Fitzgerald's own nostalgia, to see if it compares to mine, in a different age---for the different but same things.
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