... sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright, passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered 'Listen', a promise that had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour" (14 ... superficial and robust charisma. When she is first introduced in The Great Gatsby, she is described as a very captivative and seductive woman. "Then I heard footsteps on the stairs, and in a moment, the thickish figure of ...

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... characteristic of his writing. As the book travels through the world of the wealthy during what was a time of recovery and luxury in this particular area, it explores an interesting concept that is apparent in much of modern literature- money does not equal morality. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald does a stunning job of combining ... beautiful but weak all the same, which is an accurate way to describe the character Daisy as well. When Daisy speaks to the narrator, Nick, for the first time, she stutters and Nick notices two key things about Daisy. First, he notices her voice, and immedi...

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... 12:05 am. FIRST IMPRESSION OF THE MAIN CHARACTER The book begins with a paragraph that immediately made me think that the main character's life was difficult: "I carried the chamber pot across the yard to the outhouse. Holding my breath, I poured the stink through the hole in the wooden sit." (p.1). Then, the author also managed to show how sorry the main character, Daisy, felt about not having a mother and how more ... not flatulent, nor does she snore, she walks energetically and, most important, she knows the difference between a telephoto and telephone." (p.11). Those words didn't mea...

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• Grade Level: High School