The great gatsby
"that’s my middle west . . the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark. . i see now that this has been a story of the west, after all—tom and gatsby, daisy and jordan and i, were all westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to eastern life"
what does this quote mean and how does it shows nicks attitude toward possibility of acheivng the american dream