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The Great Gatsby Analysis

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is a tale told through the view of Nick Carraway as he lives his life in West Egg, chasing the American dream. Nick goes through a summer with many people, one of which being Mr. Gatsby. The novel depicts Nick’s process of understanding Gatsby as well as his discovery of the loss of Jay Gatsby.
“It was this night that he hold me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody--told it to me because “Jay Gatsby” had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice” (148).
The including of quotation marks around Gatsby’s name is a clear indicator of how there have been two versions of Gatsby shown in the story: before and after the war. Tom’s entrance into the connection Gatsby shared with Daisy shattered

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