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Gatsby's smile represents all that is simple and pure in the world to tom. his smile seems to instill a understanding that everything will be okay at the end of the day. his smile makes nick feel like he is the center of the universe no matter what is whirling around his world. In my life the only person that has truly understood me killed them self in 2011 and I have never found anyone that understands me since.

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Anyone stupid enough to try and repeat the past is doomed to repeat the past. the past must be left as the past if you could repeat it it wouldn't be called the past but the future. If it was possible to repeat the past then I would repeat freshman year and grow the hell up and act my age.

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the yellow windows represent everything in the world that people will never know about whats going on in the wold. nick seems solum and a bit sad. later on in the quote he seems to take a philosophical view point on the world.

blog post 18

The first quote is talking about how the distance between the two lovers had seemed so far at first but once they got back together it seemed like a silly little light like all others. because they were reunited they seemed to not care about what used to be just what was then and there. the second quote is showing that even after five years gatsby was still madly in love with her. even though he still loved her she most in some way have fallen short of his expectations.