The Only Use of
plagiarism
in
The Great Gatsby
- Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.†
p. 2.1
Definition:
the act of presenting someone's words or ideas as if they were your own