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The Great Gatsby

At the end of the novel when he leaves Gatsby for the last time, Nick says, “They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole dang bunch put together.” And at the beginning of the novel, he asserts “Gatsby turned out all right at the end.” Explain how Nick can make such statements.

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He is saying that everyone put together is not better than Gatsby

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When Nick shouts to Gatsby that he is "worth the whole dang bunch together," he means that Gatsby is better than Tom and Daisy and everyone else who lives, entitled, cynical, superficial lives, as Tom and Daisy do.

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