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On the application of the two characters in the The Great Gatsby 论了不起的盖茨比中二元主角手法的运用 1 Introduction The Great Gatsby brought Fitzgerald great popularity as well as great disappointment. Fitzgerald started thinking about his masterpiece in the summer of 1922 and devoted same time to the novel the next year. But it wasnt until April, 1924, that he began seriously to work on it. It was a story set in the Midwest and New York. The basic plot was very simple. James Gatz, a poor boy in the Middle West, was driven to try to realize a dream of success and elegance. By that time America entered t