The connotations of the adjectives in the below paragraph combine to suggest an attitude of?

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The Great Gatsby

The connotations of the adjectives in the below paragraph combine to suggest an attitude of?

Paragraph: I'd seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town.

The connotations of the adjectives in the above paragraph combine to suggest an attitude of?

a. admiration

b. ambivalence

c. envy

d. censure

e. condescension

Asked by Madysyn Rose on 4/22/2016 2:31 AM

Last updated by Daisy V #629884 on 3/24/2017 5:29 AM

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Answered by Aslan on 4/22/2016 2:45 AM

I'm going to go with censure. Nick uses words like monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes to describe the excess of the car. I get the sense that there is a garishness about the car that Nick seems to imply.

Answered by Daisy V #629884 on 3/24/2017 5:29 AM

Nick is impressed, as is "Everybody" with Gatsby's car. However, the adjectives "swollen" and "monstrous" carry negative connotations which somewhat qualify his admiration. His attitude is most accurately described as ambivalent.

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