The New Yorker, April 8, 1950, pages 28-36 end window of ...

Gatsby’s dream of love appeared from the very beginning more like a shadow, a fantasy, and a farfetched wish. His love dream was associated with failure, despair, and even death during the course of his romantic story. We, as readers, feel attracted to that glittering fantasy of love which, from our points of views, has never existed. ................
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