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himself, “I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger. . . a Man on the
Move, and just sick enough to be totally confident” (204). Like Nick Carraway
before him, Duke, serving as both prophet and a microcosm of the American people,
emerges from his experiences physically unscathed, but forever disillusioned.
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