It’s up to us who are the dominant race to Insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently. Was that word we-‘‘Well, these books are all scientific,’ ‘He reads deep books with long words in them. Profound,’ said Daisy with an expression of unthoughtful Scientific stuff it’s been proved.’‘Tom’s getting very The white race will be-will be utterly submerged. I answered, rather surprised by his tone.‘Well, it’s a fine book,Īnd everybody ought to read it. Rise of the Coloured Empires’ by this man Goddard?’‘Why, no,’ Gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Word “scientific” used by Tom Buchanan suggest? Speak on Tom Buchanan’s social standing his views. What features of the characters are accentuated in theĭescriptions of their appearance and behaviour? Their appearance (make a list of “terms of appearance” used by I was almost surprised into murmuring an apol-ogy for having Saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of Something on it which was quite likely to fall. She wasįull length at her end of the divan, completelyĪnd with her chin raised a little as if she were Toward her an irrelevant criticism that made it no less It said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people That there was no one in the world she so much Held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, Laughed again, as if she said something very witty, She laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I Slightly forward with a conscientious expression. Other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise-she Your breath away: for instance he’d brought down a He’d left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather His familyįreedom with money was a matter for reproach-but That everything afterward savors of anti-cli-max. Men who reach such an acute limited excellence at Husband, among various physical accomplishments,īeen one of the most powerful ends that ever playedĪt New Haven-a national figure in a way, one of Speak on the narrator’s first mention of the following characters: It was sharplyĭifferent from the West where an evening was hurried from phase toĪnticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself. They knew that presently dinner wouldĮvening too would be over and casually put away.
They accepted Tom and me, making only a polite pleasant effort toĮntertain or to be entertained. Impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire. Inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as She and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering What do they symbolize? Describe the atmosphere of the dinner-party Is the role of the descriptive paragraphs? What colours prevail in Reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though fromīroken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold,Īnd wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in ridingĬlothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch. Sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens-finally when it The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for
ItĪ cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking theīay. Marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. Tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a Was a factual imi-tation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a Sum up your observations andĬharacterize the period Carraway came East.ĭescribe the community Carraway began his new life in. The frequency of the “motion terms” (drift, move, run, ride) So I supposed it could support one more single Ragged edge of the universe-so I decided to go east and Instead of being theĬenter of the world the middle-west now seemed like In 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father,Ī little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic mi-gration The wholesale hardware business that my father car-ries on today. Here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and They call the generation Carraway belongs to?Ĭarraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition thatĭescended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the ac-tual founder of my Used throughout the chapter and explain what it suggests.
That I came back restless.” Pay attention to the word “restless” Don’t you find Carraway’s attitude towards Gatsby ambivalent(двойственный)? Give your reasons.Ĭomment on the following: “I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly Speak on the narrator’s first mention of the central figure of the novel. Scott FitzgeraldĮstablishes the narrator’s moral position. In the preface (or really afterward to the novel) F. Who serves as the novel's narrator – takes a job in New York as a
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