There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.
Nick Carraway — in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925)
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- The Great Gatsby (1925); Exact wording and attribution checked. Spoken by Nick Carraway, a fictional character, in The Great Gatsby (1925). Chapter V. Nick describes the disparity between Gatsby’s accumulated dream and his reunion with Daisy.
- The Great Gatsby (1925)
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