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Professor Sarah Churchwell on Genius, Big Dreams and F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Purity of Young Love

Gatsby's dreams are too big for the world that he inhabits, so he's constantly looking for a target for his free-flowing desire. He lands on all of the trittest and most inadequate objects of desire that he could. So to me, that's what Fitzgerald's talking about is that we have this capacity for wonder and can we find something in the world that is commensurate to that? Or do we just settle for the obvious things our society offers us?

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