I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and G…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life. ✨ The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)
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I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life. ✨ The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

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