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1
Q

According to Nick when is life more successful?

A

when looked at from a single window

2
Q

“I was within and without simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the…

A

inexhaustible variety of life”

3
Q

What is Nick content to see?

A

the nature of humans

4
Q

Where does Nick live?

A

West Egg

5
Q

What is Nick’s house squeezed between?

A

two huge places

6
Q

Who does he live next to?

A

Gatsby

7
Q

In which chapter is the quote “a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth”

A

Chapter 1

8
Q

What does Nick say Gatsby represents in Chapter 1?

A

He represents everything for which I have an unaffected scorn

9
Q

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his…

A

ghostly heart”

10
Q

“I found myself…

A

on Gatsby’s side and alone”

11
Q

What is the last sentence of the novel?

A

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”