Chrissa answers “My teacher keeps on insisting that Jay...”

Aldwin Aguilar asked this question about The Great Gatsby:

My teacher keeps on insisting that Jay Gatsby is black. Is he?

Chrissa I don't think so. There is this scene in chapter 6, and they're in the hotel, (Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Jordan and Nick) and Tom says "... and next they'll…moreI don't think so. There is this scene in chapter 6, and they're in the hotel, (Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Jordan and Nick) and Tom says "... and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white."
Whereupon Jordan says: "We're all white here."(less)

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