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The simple social contact then continues to a deeper relationship – a friendship relationship- as Tom D’Invilliers also shows common interest in literature and starts discussing dozen of books that they had read to the books that Amory had never heard. Tom D’Invilliers’ status for Amory is changing from only “an occasion” (Fitzgerald, 2013b:59) at Joe’s to friend and from an awful ‘highbrow’- whom his poem he thinks is inappropriate to be put in Literary magazine when he discussed about kinds of poem that should be put in the magazine with Kerry before he met Tom himself - to a clever man as they start to lend each other books and go to Tom’s ceiling to discuss about books. They become close to each other because they both have literary literacy

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