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- Nick, sensing that they no longer realize he's there, leaves them, walking out alone into the rain. Once Gatsby achieves his dream, he becomes absorbed in it, and forgets Nick.
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In the book’s final pages, Nick ties his story of Gatsby to the idea of the American Dream, a notion that Nick imagines was born when Dutch sailors first arrived in the place that would become New York.
In chapter 8, Nick believes Gatsby gives up on his dream of wooing Daisy, but there is nothing to suggest Gatsby has a premonition of his own death.
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Writing two years after Gatsbys death, Nick describes the events that surrounded the funeral. Swarms of reporters, journalists, and gossipmongers descend on the mansion in the aftermath of the murder. Wild, untrue stories, more exaggerated than the rumors about Gatsby when he was throwing his parties, circulate about the nature of Gatsbys relations...
On his last night in West Egg before moving back to Minnesota, Nick walks over to Gatsbys empty mansion and erases an obscene word that someone has written on the steps. He sprawls out on the beach behind Gatsbys house and looks up. As the moon rises, he imagines the island with no houses and considers what it must have looked like to the explorers...
Nick thinks of America not just as a nation but as a geographical entity, land with distinct regions embodying contrasting sets of values. The Midwest, he thinks, seems dreary and pedestrian compared to the excitement of the East, but the East is merely a glittering surfaceit lacks the moral center of the Midwest. This fundamental moral depravity d...
Even after the confrontation with Tom, Gatsby is unable to accept that his dream is dead. Though Nick implicitly understands that Daisy is not going to leave Tom for Gatsby under any circumstance, Gatsby continues to insist that she will call him.
In Chapter Nine of The Great Gatsby, the illusionary dreams of Jay Gatsby have come to a crashing end, Nick recalls after two years. The scene of Gatsby's home was a "nightmare,...
Nick sees Gatsby as symbolic of everyone in America, each with his or her own great dream. And each dream an effort to regain a past already lost.
Nick, in his reflections on Gatsby's life, suggests that Gatsby's great mistake was loving Daisy. He chose an inferior object upon which to focus his almost mystical capacity for dreaming.
