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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the great gatsby a

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literary success yes but another failure in Leonardo DiCaprio's quest for an [Leonardo DiCaprio grabs an Oscar trophy]

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Oscar well sorry leo.....All right well here's today's question Jay Gatsby

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believes the world revolves around him and that he can create his own reality

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he might be a what and here are potential answers....

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All right well believing that the entire world revolves around you [DiCaprio's face circling planet Earth]

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it's definitely ignorance ignoramus isn't what we're looking for as it has [DiCaprio wearing a dunce hat]

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nothing to differ with psychology. C is wrong purely from a grammatical

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standpoint thinking you're the center of everything is definitely delusional but [DiCaprio dressed in a tuxedo by a lighthouse]

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delude isn't even a noun it's a verb meaning to deceive or mislead and while

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we're on the topic of words that don't make grammatical sense unless we somehow [Slot machine spinning]

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left out the first half of that answer there A doesn't work either. You might

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think schizophrenia make sense since delusions of grandeur are symptomatic of [Doctor taking DiCaprio's temperature]

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schizophrenia but this alone isn't enough to make such a diagnosis and

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therefore it doesn't work either but a narcissist well that does make a whole [DiCaprio walking by a series of mirrors]

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lot of sense narcissism is a psychological term associated with

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abnormally high levels of self-absorption narcissists have extreme

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conceit and self-regard and tend to think the world revolves around them [Planet Earth hits DiCaprio]

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