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Which quote best demonstrates Gatsby’s tragic flaw?Group of answer choices“Then he drifted back to Lake Superior, and he was still searching for something to do on the day that Dan Cody’s yacht dropped anchor in the shallows alongshore.”“Gatsby looked at me questioningly. He wanted to go, and he didn’t see that Mr. Sloane had determined he shouldn’t.”“‘She didn’t like it,’ he insisted. ‘She didn’t have a good time.’”“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.”

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Which quote best demonstrates Gatsby’s tragic flaw?Group of answer choices“Then he drifted back to Lake Superior, and he was still searching for something to do on the day that Dan Cody’s yacht dropped anchor in the shallows alongshore.”“Gatsby looked at me questioningly. He wanted to go, and he didn’t see that Mr. Sloane had determined he shouldn’t.”“‘She didn’t like it,’ he insisted. ‘She didn’t have a good time.’”“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.”

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The quote that best demonstrates Gatsby's tragic flaw is "He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy." This quote shows Gatsby's inability to let go of the past and his obsession with a version of Daisy that no longer exists, if it ever did. This is his tragic flaw because it leads to his downfall.

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