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“I am one of the few people that I have ever known”(Fitzgerald 65)
It describes his troubles of fitting in and that even though he could be around hundreds of people, but he will still feel lonely

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"...the only place in
the garden where a single man could linger without looking
purposeless and alone." (Fitzgerald 46)
In this passage the character Nick has been invited to Gatsby's party. This reveals to the readers that Nick is very isolated, but purposeless. He tends to always judge everyone he knows which causes him to be very lonely.

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"I am still
a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense
of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at
birth."(Fitzgerald 1)

Nick says that what his father said has stuck with him and that he is afraid that he would forget it and that he learned a lot from his dad.

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‘Anyhow he gives large parties,’ said Jordan, changing
the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete. ‘And I
like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there
isn’t any privacy (Fitzgerald 54)

In the beginning it seemed like Jordan was more to herself and stand offish but in chapter 3 she seems to loosen up more, and reveals herself.

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"It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him..." (Fitzgerald 48). People's speculations of Gatsby varies from person to person. The numerous rumors about Gatsby, and the mystery behind his true identity shows that Gatsby might be lonely. For someone who has these extravagant parties but no one has truly met him, shows that he is lonely even though, it may seem he is a popular person

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“Well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.” (Ch 1)

This quote shows how Tom is a little racist considering the book that he read is essentially a book about how its ok to discriminate.

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“ ‘Now, don’t think my opinion on these matters are final’, he seemed to say, ‘Just because I’m stronger and more of man than you are’”(Fitzgerald 10).

This quote helps us get a better grasp of how Tom perceives masculinity.

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Well, it’s fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be- will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.
Tom is reading a book and tells Nick and Daisy about it. Tom shows racism, but also his uncritical nature. Tom also reveals that he an affair with Myrtle

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"I am one of the few honest people I have ever known."

This was stated by Nick at the end of Chapter 3 that makes me as a reader feel more less trustworthy of Nick. Nick is narrating the story, so he attempting to gain trust as a narrator the best he can.

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"All the bright precious things fade so fast... and they don't come back"

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"He had changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a sturdy straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner" (Fitzgerald 45). This stood out to me because it is one of the first times we hear about him in this book and Nick explains how different Tom looked.

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"I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. I've had a very bad time, Nicky. I'm pretty cynical about everything" (Fitzgerald 20).

This quote reflects how she perceives the world, especially a male dominated world.

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"I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season" (Fitzgerald 5).

It's interesting to see how Nick describes the type of society he is living in. There seems to be a specific caste system where old money lives on the East Egg and where he lives, near the West Egg, which is considered new money.

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"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages you've had"(Fitzgerald 1)

This explains that Nick doesn't like to judge or criticize people making him open to learning about others.

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"I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited" (Fitzgerald 45).

This quote gives Mr. Gatsby a very mysterious character because how no one has ever been invited to any of his parties, which makes all the other characters unsure of Gatsby's intentions with them. No one has really met him even though he has all these parties, which makes  Gatsby's character very mysterious .

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“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald [somewhere in ch 1 I’m so sorry])

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“I waited and sure enough in a moment she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society in which she and Tom belonged”

This shows the difference in classes and how they treat one another. Even the way that Daisy now looks at Nick is different. Daisy wants to establish the difference even though they are related.

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'Alright', I said,' I'm glad its a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool¨ (Fitzgerald 17).
When Daisy gave birth to her daughter, she placed her under a stereotype that all other girls had been generalized by. It says a lot about the role of woman because men were the ones who relied on their wives to come home to a dinner plate, while they are at work. I don't think Pamela Buchanan is apart of the story plot because of her father being with a mistress. Tom is always sneaking around or at work and we only truly see Daisy at the Gatsby parties.

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“I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited”(Fitzgerald 45).

There is something so mysterious and questioning about Mr. Gatsby. He clearly wants to meet Mr. Carraway but we aren’t sure what his intentions are; especially because no one has ever been invited to his parties. I find it really intriguing that no one has ever really seen Gatsby but Gatsby sees something in Mr. Carraway.