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  1. Public Bookmark 26

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    I wondered where he had been after the war. Suddenly, without even realizing it, I was interested in his interests. I wondered if he was secretly unconventional.
     

    Gatsby keeps having this dream where he dies and is sent back in time. It makes him look at Nick Carraway a bit differently.
    Or, the potential of the American Dream.

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    21 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 13

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    Aaron had a feeling about this man, and his first impressions were rarely wrong. He felt certain, they were going to have fun together.

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    19 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    Aaron feels like a rubber band at the best of times. What that means is that he goes from stretched and taut and too much to snapping at a moments notice, emotional impact made with whatever has caused his most recent panic. It's leftover stress from childhood needs permanently unaddressed. It's maladaptive, is what it is. Aaron is a rubber band, when he should have been water. He snaps and breaks instead of flows.

    At his father's murder trial, Aaron doesn't leave a single thing out. He breaks down on the stand, nine years old and traumatized, while Martin watches and his father yells, and he cries and stutters over what it was like to hear his mother's neck snap as a room full of people watches on.

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    19 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    Martin Vail feels stupid, he missed the obvious signs.

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    Martin has a moment of realization, notices that Aaron was probably being sexually abused by Rushman.

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    19 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 3

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    Jay sat in his grand bed, sunlight peaking through his windows at him. He curled up in the covers, his brow furrowed.

    "And I-!" He said, cutting off and sighing as he continued to speak to Daisy. "Who am I kidding.. it's terribly lonely."

    Gatsby had it all together. Gatsby put on a lavish facade of excitement. He put on a smile that seemed to understand everything. A true Oxford man, an extravagant and rich bachelor.

    This was not Gatsby in his bed. This was Jay. Jay was broken and alone. Jay found it hard to smile, and found it hard to cope with seperation. Jay gave up Daisy and has resigned himself to his palace-like home ever since.

    ...
    Maybe he'll call Nick.

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    18 Mar 2026