He had seen me several times and had intended to call on me long before but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it—signed Jay Gatsby in a majestic hand.

他见过我几次，早就打算来看我了，但是由于种种特殊的情况，他没有来——他威严地签下名字：杰伊·盖茨比。

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But perhaps the real problem with the novel was Jay Gatsby himself.

但也许这本小说里真正的问题出在杰·盖茨比自己身上。

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Gatsby asks Daisy to tell her husband that he, Jay Gatsby, is her only true love.

盖茨比要戴西告诉她丈夫，他才是她惟一的真爱。

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Jay Gatsby was, in essence, the truest kind of American.

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Take the bromance between Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby.

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Which underscores the point that Baz Luhrmann and Jay-Z (not to be confused with Jay Gatsby) picked the wrong literary giant to mess with when they saturated the soundtrack of the latest filming of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (1925) with rap and hip-hop.

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