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How Does Daisy Open Up In The Great Gatsby
In the novella of The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald the Great Gatsby eventually gets unravels throughout the story. Gatsby does not realize, but Daisy was truly showing different sides of Gatsby in how he opened up. “Nobody’s coming to tea. It’s too late!” (Fitzgerald 85). The quote explains how Gatsby is becoming a nervous man when he never use to show this side of himself before. He would always have a barrier up to prove how tough he is. Gatsby over some time had told Nick his true past from where he had grown up to how he came about. “He told me all this very much later, but I've put it down here with the idea of exploding those first wild rumors about his antecedents,” (Fitzgerald 101). This quote is explaining how Gatsby opens up

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