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I just started reading The Beautiful and Damned. I really enjoyed the Great Gatsby. I'm not understanding this one line from the book. It's on the first page: " two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day..." What is irony? What does "the Holy Ghost of this later day" mean? Thank you so much!
Ron Humble A simple way of putting it is that irony usually signals a difference between the appearance of things and reality. In this case irony replaces God fo…moreA simple way of putting it is that irony usually signals a difference between the appearance of things and reality. In this case irony replaces God for Anthony in 1913 when he was 25.(less)
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The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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