“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us,” (Fitzgerald, 180) may have been what killed Gatsby, the title character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The novel is told from the first-person narrative of Nick Carraway, who has recently moved from the midwest to Long Island, New York, during the roaring twenties, where he then meets the mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby, who is in love with Nick’s cousin, Daisy. Daisy lives in East Egg, where…
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