The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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What is the final answer to the main question of The Great Gatsby?

bezon

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There are 3 partial answers to that question and one final one. Please describe each of these, who gave them, and how believable each one is.

Posted by bezon on April 22, 2009 at 12:21 AM and tagged with question, the great gatsby, themes

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While I am not sure as to the partial answers to which you allude, I will try to address the question as to what are the final answers revealed to us in The Great Gatsby.  I think that...

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Posted by akannan on July 9, 2009 at 8:51 AM

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