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At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, ...
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the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two ...
change their names. Think of Jay Gatsby (from F. Scott Fitzgerald's novelThe Great Gatsby), born and raised James Gatz before transforming himself into a glamorous millionaire. McCandless may have chosen "Alexander" to honor Alexander the Great, a conqueror of vast territories previously unknown...
TheGreatGatsby–Chapter9 The Great Gatsby– Chapter 9 1. Why did Nick take care of Gatsby’s funeral?2. Why does Fitzgerald introduce the character of Mr. Gatz?3. How was Jay Gatz’s childhood schedule consistent with the adult Gatsby’s behavior?4. Who attended Ga tsby’s ...
to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table the only place in the garden where a single man...
The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the...
2.2.2 James Fennimore Cooper (1789-1851) v two great figures of American mythology: the brave frontiersman and th 11、e bold Indian. v author of the “Leather Stocking Tales”a series of five novelsThe Pioneers (1823)The Last of the Mohicans (1826)The Prairie (1827)The Pathfinder (1840...
Chapter 5 America in the 20th Century