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What does Nick mean when he describes Jay Gatsby as being the type of man “a seventeen-year-old boy would invent”?

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a wealthy socialite moving upward on the social scale.

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He invented ... the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would ... invent. Nick: In pursuing his version of the American dream, Gatsby remakes himself into what he believes, on a superficial level, to be the ideal man: a wealthy socialite moving upward on the social scale.

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