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“There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby’s enormous house so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour. A brewer had built it early in the “period” craze, a decade before, and there was a story that he’d agreed to pay five years’ taxes on all the neighboring cottages if the owners would have their roofs thatched with straw. Perhaps their refusal took the heart out of his plan to found a Family—he went into an immediate decline. His children sold his house with a black wreath still on the door. Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
Gatsby was a person who was motivated by greed and envy. He never stopped to ask himself, "Who am I?" He lived on a very shallow level without insight or personal philosophy.
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Feb 15, 2015 01:29PM
“There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby’s enormous house so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour. A brewer had built it early in the “period” craze, a decade before, and there was a story that he’d agreed to pay five years’ taxes on all the neighboring cottages if the owners would have their roofs thatched with straw. Perhaps their refusal took the heart out of his plan to found a Family—he went into an immediate decline. His children sold his house with a black wreath still on the door. Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”
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Gatsby was a person who was motivated by greed and envy. He never stopped to ask himself, "Who am I?" He lived on a very shallow level without insight or personal philosophy.
