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Your Turn

In “Great Expectations: What Gatsby’s Really Looking For”(p. 187), William Deresiewicz summarizes the familiar novel only minimally for his audience — the readers of a journal titled The American Scholar. What adjustments might he have to make for a more general — or, let’s say, a less academic — audience? Did you find yourself lost or confused when reading the essay and, if so, where?

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