In "The Great Gatsby", what is the moral of the story?

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Posted by dkc on March 12, 2009 at 2:27 PM and tagged with conflict, fitzgerald, gatsby, great gatsby, moral, story, the great gatsby, theme

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The novel is really too complex to be reduced to a single "moral of the story" analysis, but one compelling theme seems to be Fitzgerald's assertion that romantic illusion cannot survive when...

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