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This quote is found in Chapter 8. What does it mean ? How does this quote affect the paragraphs around the quote ? How does the Author's word choice affect the tone ?

"Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor."

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I think the tone of the quote was telling the bitterness of the wealth preservation

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