Support the following themes by referring to comments and incidents in the novel:

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The Great Gatsby

Support the following themes by referring to comments and incidents in the novel:

A. The extremely rich are careless, arrogant people who retreat behind their money.

B. While the East may hold more excitement, the Midwest offers continuity and stability.

C. Some dreams can be held too long and require too high a price.

D. We spend our lives running to catch the dreams of our past.

E. The life of modern man is loud, racucous, and expensive; like the valley of ashes, however, it is a burnt-our affair with little meaning, significance, or joy.

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Answered by Aslan on 4/14/2016 6:43 PM

The extremely rich are careless, arrogant people who retreat behind their money.

It seems that the American dream has been perverted, reversed. Gatsby lives in West Egg and Daisy in East Egg; therefore, Gatsby looks East with yearning, rather than West, the traditional direction of American frontier ambitions. Fitzgerald portrays the chauvinistic and racist Tom in a very negative light, clearly scoffing at his apocalyptic vision of the races intermarrying. East Egg is home to the insular, narrow-minded denizens of the old aristocracy. They are superficial vacuous people who care nothing for Gatsby or anybody else.

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