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"unaffected scorn" - genuine or unchangeable?
"Gatsby /.../ represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn".
Does "unaffected" mean "genuine" or "unchangeable", eternal scorn?
Apr 20, 2013 1:40 PM
Answers · 2
Unaffected = honest. It is genuine scorn.
April 20, 2013
It can be both simultaneously. The man had genuine hate for Gatsby, and that hate could be eternal.
April 20, 2013
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