How do readers view Tom Buchanan as a result of his behavior in the novel’s opening chapter? Readers immediately recognize that Tom is a cruel bully.
Q. Which literary movement that emerged after World War 1 included experimental techniques to capture and depict the contradictions and complexities of life?
Modernism
Q. Which of the following best defines the word modernism?
Answer: The statement that best defines the world modernism is “a literary movement that emerged after World War I and employed experimental techniques to capture and depict the contradictions and complexities of life.”
Q. What does Gatsby suggest when he describes Daisy’s voice as being full of money?
When Gatsby says Daisy’s voice is “full of money,” he means that one can sense her wealth and privilege just from hearing her speak. The beautiful Daisy has always lived a life of luxury, facing no consequences for her words or actions.
Q. Is Her voice is full of money a metaphor?
Daisy’s voice is not literally full of money but instead expresses her wealthy background and aristocratic upbringing. While Gatsby’s quote is both a metaphor and idiom, it is not an example of personification. Personification is when human characteristics are attributed to non-human objects or animals.
Q. Why did Tom and Daisy not divorce?
Myrtle believes that the only reason Tom will not divorce Daisy is because Daisy is Catholic. But we learn that Tom’s feelings for Myrtle are far less intense than he has led her to believe and that social pressure prevents him from ever leaving Daisy, who comes from a similar upper-class background.
Q. Why did owl eyes attend Gatsby’s funeral?
Owl Eyes attends Gatsby’s funeral in order to show his respect for Gatsby. Unlike most other people in Gatsby’s life, including Daisy, his business associates, his supposed friends, and his party guests, Owl Eyes actually sees Gatsby as a real, complex person.
Q. Is Mr Gatz proud of his son?
Gatz, who has come all the way from Minnesota. Henry Gatz is proud of his son and saves a picture of his house. He also fills Nick in on Gatsby’s early life, showing him a book in which a young Gatsby had written a schedule for self-improvement.
Q. Why did owl eyes think the books were fake?
Because he realizes Gatsby is projecting a facade, Owl Eyes registers surprise that the books on Gatsby’s library shelves are real. He had thought that Gatsby would use cardboard imitations of book covers. He admires Gatsby for going to such great lengths to project an image.
Q. Did Daisy call Gatsby at the end?
No, she does not. Gatsby in not actually in love with Daisy either.
Q. Did Nick inherit Gatsby’s money?
It is never revealed who inherits Gatsby’s money when he dies.
Q. Who gets Gatsby’s money?
The Great Gatsby strongly implies that Jay Gatsby got his money from bootlegging. Tom does research on Gatsby and finds out he has been in business with Meyer Wolfsheim selling grain alcohol over the counter in drug stores.
