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 Current Search - why in The Great Gatsby
1  That's why I want to get away.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
2  She didn't see why he couldn't come.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  He looked at me sideways--and I knew why Jordan Baker had believed he was lying.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
4  And I don't understand why you won't come out frankly and tell me what you want.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  Just why these inventions were a source of satisfaction to James Gatz of North Dakota, isn't easy to say.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  Michaelis didn't see anything odd in that and he gave Wilson a dozen reasons why his wife might have bought the dog leash.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  I knew now why her face was familiar--its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1