a ᴖ◡ᴖ that had the power to luminate a world

A delicate and intricate expressions that show or hide true desire. Smiles are the most deceiving appearance a soul could create. A mask that covers perhaps what makes a person real.

 My favorite line in the entire book must have been after Nick gives his only compliment to Gatsby. "First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into a radiant and understanding smile, as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the time." Everything about Gatsby imprinting smile shouts out details about Gatsby. Reality has finally "broke" into Gatsby and he knows that it's over for him. He need to close the book to his long and vain dream. This smile was his farewell to his "Old Sport" Nick. He maintains his facade of a Great man even until his last moments of lux-. Although in the novel it seems that Nick doesn't realize the deeper meaning of Gatsby's smile but in Nick's heart, he knows that James Gatz has always been protected by the "Platonic" Jay Gatsby. It had only seemed to Nick that their life had "been ecstatic cahoots" but as a mater of "fact" it really had been fake "all the time." The smile Gatsby used to return a complement will forever hide his floating sadness from the world.

All of this leads to the most beautiful passage in Great Gatsby, his death.
"I drove from the station directly to Gatsby's house and my rushing anxiously up the the front steps was the first thing that alarmed any one...There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other. With little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool. A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental burden. The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of a transit, a thin red circle in the water. It was after we started with, Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Wilson's body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete."

This is simply the most beautiful piece in the whole book. The little amount of honest love that could be traced in the entirety of the book is found in the first sentence of this excerpt. The rush and anxiety that Nick endured was the only genuine emotions of love. The other characters in this novel share an extreme amount of love and lust for money and its pleasures. It was a splendid choice in using holocaust to represent the finale of life. After the treacherous tragedy, tranquility ripples the weakened community. Slowly people will move on; the wounds created will heal but to leave a scar to remind that the past is always there.