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1
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Turned out

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Gatsby turned out alright in the end

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Dust

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Fouk dust floated in the wake of his dreams

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France

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Year in France for no particular reason

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Jordan’s eyes

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Grey sun strained eyes on

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5
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Tj ek

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Eternal blindness

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Nerves

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Never a of her body continually smouldering

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Lonely

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Haunting loneliness

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Jordan lies

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Incurably dishonest

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Clock

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Running down like an overwound clock

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10
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Plato

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Sprang from the platonic conception of himself

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11
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Common

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Common but pretty

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12
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West egg

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Appalled by west egg

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13
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Past lurks

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As if the past were lurking here in the shadow

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14
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Admit love

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You look so cool

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15
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Daisy want

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You want too much

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16
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Retreat

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Further and further into herself

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17
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Myrtle death

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Giving up the tremendous vitality

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18
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Gatsby watches

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Watching over nothing

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19
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God

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God sees everything

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20
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Single dream

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Paid a high price for livin too long with a single dream

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21
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Death

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The holocaust was complete

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22
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After his death

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After gastvys death the east was haunted

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23
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Tom and daisy

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Retreated back into their money and vast carelessness

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24
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Effect of war

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I came back restless

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25
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Gatsby sensitive

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Heightened sensitivity

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26
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Money brings liberty for Tom

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Freedom with money

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27
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Toms life is pointless

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Defy on forever seeking a little wistful for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

28
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Toms eyes

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Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face

29
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Tom body

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A body capable of enormous leverage- a cruel body

30
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Tom manly

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More of a man than you

31
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D meeting nick

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I’m pparalysed with happiness

32
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Racism

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The dominant race

We’ve got to beat them down

33
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Rose

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You remind me of a rose an absolute rose

34
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Daisy controlling everything

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I’ll sort of- oh- fling you together

35
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Gatsby god like

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Come out to determine what shape was his of our local heavens

36
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Green light

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I could have sworn he was trembling

37
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Tj ek

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Look out of no face

38
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Valley

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Solemn dumping ground

39
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Meeting myrtle

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Curious to see her… no desire to meet her

40
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Myrtle and Wilson

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Walking through her husband

41
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Myrtle looking

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Regal homecoming glance

42
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Owl eyes

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What thoroughness what realism

43
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Reality of Gatsby, people don’t know him

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He’s just a man named Gatsby

44
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new York

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Constant flicker of men and women and machines.

45
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Devilish

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Second cousin to the devil

46
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Gatsby family dead

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His voice was solemn

47
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G worried about view

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I didn’t want you to think I was just some nobody

48
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Wedding hyperbole

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Hired a whole floor…gave her a string of pearls

49
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D relies of t

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She’d look around uneasily

50
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D and tvlike Zelda and fitz

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They moved with a fast crowd all of them young and rich and wild

51
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Gatsby birth

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He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour

52
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Wonder

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He was consumed with wonder at her presence

53
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Building himself

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To this conception he was faithful to the end

54
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Sexist

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Women get these notions in their heads

55
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Wilson and Tom

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There was no difference between men in intelligence or race so profound as the difference between the sick and the well

56
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G elusive

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Mr nobody from nowhere

57
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Tom and daisy together

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They weren’t happy… and yet they weren’t unhappy either

58
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T and d chat

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Conspiring together

59
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Tom crushes g

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Jay Gatsby had broken up like glass against toms hard malice

60
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Class difference

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Daisy gleaming like silver sage and proud above the hot struggles of the poor

61
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D world

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Artificial world

62
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Early relationship

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He had lost that part of it the freshest and the best forever

63
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Rose

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What a grotesque thing a rose is

64
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Wilson reduces

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Wilson was reduced to a man deranged by grief

65
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Dust

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He threw dust in your eyes

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