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…showed last 75 words of 620 total…and this led to his death. If there is a lesson to learn from Jay Gatsby, it is to distinguish between persistence and stubbornness. On the road of life, persistence drives men and women to their goals, while taking many different routes and roads to get there. Stubbornness drove Gatsby into a roadblock, and all he did was attempt to move straight forward. As a result, he crashed, and he crashed conclusively and unfortunately, hard.