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Chapter 6
We get James Gatz. Tom comes to a party. Gatsby says you can repeat the past.
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Gatsbywantsthepastback
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He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you."
Nick · Chapter 6 · love · the past
Gatsby does not want Daisy now. He wants the last four years erased.
Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself
Nick · Chapter 6 · the American dream · the past
James Gatz invented Jay Gatsby. He invented a man and then tried to become him.
Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!
Gatsby · Chapter 6 · the past · the American dream
Nick says you cannot. Gatsby thinks you can. The book is about that fight.
You can't repeat the past.
Nick says the ordinary thing. Gatsby does not believe ordinary things.
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