... " thing a rose is. In saying this, I think what Nick means is that the conventional social idea in the world about a rose connoting atheistic beauty is because people give it that symbolism. Nick believes that roses are not inherently beautiful; that it is only so because people have come to perceive it that way. In similar ways, Nick believes that Gatsby had ... cruel, duplicitous and unfeeling men like Tom, get the love of beautiful women that are longed for by the nice guys of the world, dreamers like Gatsby. Again about Nick's analogy on symbols taking the interpretation of what indi...

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