The Great Gatsby Study Guide & Essays

The Great Gatsby, tense arm

I'd like to know the meaning of "tense" in the following extract from the first chapter of The Great Gatsby:

Before I could reply that he was my neighbor dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.

Thank you.

The Great Gatsby | Answers: 1

The Great Gatsby, casual watcher

Could you please tell me the meaning of "casual" in the following excerpt from The chapter Two of The Great Gatsby?

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

Thank you.

The Great Gatsby | Answers: 1

How does gatsby characterize daisys voice?

In chapter 7 of the great gatsby

The Great Gatsby | Answers: 1

what pet do you have?

calico cat

The Great Gatsby | Answers: 1