UNSPOKEN BOND
She sighed, her voice tinged with thinly veiled frustration.
Dylan, the nerd, straightened his shoulders and coughed slightly. "The central theme of 'The Great Gatsby' is the corruption of the American Dream," he said, his deep voice grating on Lila's already frazzled nerves. "Fitzgerald's critique of the decadence and moral decay of the Jazz Age elite serves as a scathing indictment of the pursuit of wealth and status at the expense of human decency."
Dylan's lips twisted into a smug smirk, his chest heaving with pride at having delivered the textbook answer with robotic accuracy. Lila resisted the need to roll her eyes, her fingers twitching with the desire to launch a caustic retort.
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