Ok. Here’s the last one for you to comment on. If you’ve worked on the others, this one should be a little easier:
I looked around. Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands. Even Jordan’s party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by [...]
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After Jordan is called away to speak with Gatsby in private Nick wanders alone for a few minutes.
A clue for you here is the figure of speech called euphemism. Euphemism is when we substitute a pleasant or polite word for a harsher, but truer, reality. For example a “moron” might be described as “mentally [...]
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Ok. Here’s another passage. This one is about Gatsby himself:
He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and [...]
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Chapter 3 is the culmination of the first 1/3 of the novel (I see the novel split into three three chapter sections). And it is definitely fancy and flamboyant. But I’m going to turn the analysis over to you.
In Chapter 3 we finally meet the mysterious Gatsby whose name gives us our title. We [...]
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New York while physically small is amazingly monstrous in its human geography. Let’s first take a look at Manhattan Island.
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