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Nick and Tom come from the same social background, which is, not incidentally, the same as that of F. Scott Fitzgerald himself. They are of the Midwestern upper classes, transplanted to and educated in the East. Tom and Nick were at Yale together, giving them both an assurance in their social status that Gatsby lacks.
Explanation:
to make a slave or slaves of; reduce to or as if to slavery: to enslave a people; enslaved by drugs.
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