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by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is widely considered to be F. Scott Fitzergerald's greatest novel. It is also considered a seminal work on the fallibility of the American dream. It focuses on a young man, Jay Gatsby, who, after falling in love with a woman from the social elite, makes a lot of…

The Great Gatsby is typically considered F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest novel. The Great Gatsby study guide contains a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

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Posted By eric c #312325 at May 18, 2013 10:00 AM

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.

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Posted By eric c #312325 at May 17, 2013 11:55 AM

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.

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