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On the trip to the city, tom drives gatsby's car. what is ironic about tom's comment, "you can buy anything at a drugstore nowadays."

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In "The Great Gatsby", a story told by Nick Carraway, one of the characters is named Tom who was a broker. One of Tom's lines in the story was, "You can buy anything at a drugstore nowadays." What is ironic about this is that the name drugstore implies that all they sell are drugs.
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