his funeral. The cynicism and nihilism in the novel are products of an era that was discovering that even the "American dream" is an illusion.
In Fitzgerald's style this is true even for heroes like Gatsby, a man who is described at the beginning of the novel as being in control of life to the point where he even owns a piece of nature: "Something in his easy movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what care was his of our local heavens" (Fitzgerald 21).
Nick is more realistic than every Tom or Gatsby, a person who does not stormily dream of secret love affairs and one who cannot idealise macrocosm. Though Fitzgerald's style is more romanticism than realism, the era in which he wrote and the wealthy circles in which he traveled, well taught him that reality despite is appearances contained many "ash-heaps" among the dreams of daisies. We see this when he becomes close to
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