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29. Love's Labor's Lost
30. The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald is a magician. And here's another invisible house, albeit of the visible variety, and another instance of land flowing like water. And the glaring precursor of Citizen Kane, Catcher in the Rye, and some things in Crowley.
My high school theory that Gatsby arranged for Nick to come out, had set up his job and home for him, does fit the facts but seems superfluous. Ockham lops another.
30. The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald is a magician. And here's another invisible house, albeit of the visible variety, and another instance of land flowing like water. And the glaring precursor of Citizen Kane, Catcher in the Rye, and some things in Crowley.
My high school theory that Gatsby arranged for Nick to come out, had set up his job and home for him, does fit the facts but seems superfluous. Ockham lops another.
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I find it superfluous because Nick does know Gatsby's using him, even trying to bribe him, and helps anyway. Maybe he'd have reached some human limit and not helped him if he'd thought Gatsby had researched Daisy's whole extended family etc., but is that important? Nick decides that, at least in comparison to Daisy & Co., Gatsby is the good one, since his monstrous actions are dedicated to something and not half-assed assuagements of vanity like those of the Old Rich are. Would learning he'd been a pawn to start with, that Gatsby's smiles of reassurance had been calculated all along, have changed things?
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