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NEEP HELP ASAP

Hi i have three questions that i need answered...hopefully somebody can help me!
ok number 1 is does anyone know the significance of Mr. Gatz's appearance and his feelings about his son at the end of the novel???

number 2 is when the narrator states, "i can see now this has beeen a story of the West after all" what does this mean... can anyone give me examples from the book.

at the last one number 3 is does anyone know the significance of the green light, always visible at the end of Daisys peir. and if anyone has any examples from the book again that would be great..

thank you to who ever helps me.
God Bless You
Posted by randalynn h #55539 at Mar 11, 2008 7:58 PM || Report this post || Reply

#3 . . . The green light is a sign of hope for Gatsby.  He sees that light and buys the house across the water so that he can be near Daisy and entice her to come to one of his lavish parties.  He has finally found her, and he believes he has the "green light" to woo her.
Posted by coco s #17435 at Mar 15, 2008 7:50 AM || Report this post || Reply

OK. 
#2
In the Great Gatsby, by Fitzgerald, The West Egg is like the American West.  It's a frontier.  It's innocent and optimistic, like Nick and Jay Gatz.  It's new-money. The East Egg is the establishment.  It's corrupt and drunk and jaded, like Tom and Daisy.
Even though Tom and Daisy are originally from the West, living a wealthy life on East Egg has destroyed their innocent optimism; they become "careless people who destroyed other people's lives."
The Great Gatsby is a story about the heady optimism of the 1920's.  That's why it's a story about the West and how it's destroyed by the East.
Posted by ashley w #55994 at Mar 19, 2008 1:21 AM || Report this post || Reply

 

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