The Great Gatsby

What quote in which chapter best displays Gatsby's denial of his past?

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In Chapter Seven, we see that Gatsby's greatest denial was evident in the denial the truth of his birth and parentage.

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people--his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God--a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that--and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.

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The Great Gatsby