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“How moving that Fitzgerald’s simple choice of that green light blinking in the dark distance was to become the most powerful symbol of the American Dream in our literature. It’s like Charles Foster Kane and his “Rosebud.”
Well, it’s just a perfect novel. It towers over everything else Fitzgerald wrote, almost suspiciously so, as if he sold his soul to the devil (a very Gatsby thing to do) in order to write the Great American Novel. If so, the devil has a keen sense of irony. “The Great Gatsby” was a bust when first published in 1925; only after poor Fitzgerald’s death as a forgotten hack did its reputation began to soar. It’s one of the greatest novels ever written -- a profound elegy for America as apropos today as it ever was, such a nation of aspiring Gatsbys are we still.
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