Gatsby is a book that has come to mean something to people that sometimes feels disconnected from the book itself. Fitzgerald’s great trick was to write about two people who wanted each other, but not write a love story. Of course I root for Daisy to leave Tom every time. But my rooting is wrong, and by the end of the book, Fitzgerald has really shown you why. Daisy is the one that got away—except you have no idea what that means. That “one” isn’t some better future. She is a person—a indelibly flawed American. Like you.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, on The Great Gatsby.
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