I found two striking moments. First of all when Nick finally meets Gatsby (1) and the second when Gatsby dies in an unfair and unexpected way (2).
(1) " I'm Gatsby, he said suddenly what I exclaimed. "Oh I beg your pardon" (chap 3)
(2) "...I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. " (chap 8)
- Those are moments when Fitzgerald discovers the main characters more openly and then by the closure of the novel when the first character, who represented the hope for the future, dies in a sudden and abruptly.
- With this I changed my mind, because I expected a happy ending, and with this I saw the imposibility of any change in the depicted sociaty of the twenties.
- While I was reading the novel I though all Nick's illution about Gatsby would find a positive solution as regards the values but after reading the whole novel I realized the writer became pesimistic because of the death og Gatsby.
- I would ask the author: Could it have a political relation, the motive that makes you consider the imposibility to rescue spiritual values within a sociaty plenty of material wealth?
You have done a lot of thinking: good! Unfortunately, some of your ideas are obscured due to faulty use of language. For example, does your final question mean whether the abundance of wealth makes it impossible for a society to have moral values?
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1st quotation "What!" I exclaimed. "Oh, I beg your pardon."
discloses ..openly ...close of the novel ... main character ... dies suddenly and abruptly; though vs thought