Word: irrepressibilityã
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...tale is to miss the genius of the novel. For “Gatsby” acquires its true tragic dimensions not only through its devastating social critique but also through its celebration of the beauty of Gatsby’s dream—its exuberance, its optimism, its irrepressibility??even as it remains ever elusive and unfulfilled. “So we beat on,” Fitzgerald writes, “boats against the current,” and Gatsby’s story is one played out over and over again in every generation...
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