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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: found George Wilson sick in his office--really sick, pale as his own
pale hair and shaking all over. Michaelis advised him to go to bed, but
Wilson refused, saying that he'd miss a lot of business if he did.
While his neighbor was trying to persuade him a violent racket broke
out overhead.
"I've got my wife locked in up there," explained Wilson calmly.
"She's going to stay there till the day after to-morrow, and then we're
going to move away."
Michaelis was astonished; they had been neighbors for four years, and
Wilson had never seemed faintly capable of such a statement. Generally
he was one of these worn-out men: when he wasn't working, he sat on a
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