[ad_1] If F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby had been written as a raise-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps-story, starting off with a young boy hell-bent on moving on up in the world, we would have a story that read more like Charles Dickson’s Great Expectations. Of course, both are great classic novels that brilliantly explore themes of class, ambition, wealth …
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