... ' Where?' Anywhere. All right I'll be glad to. I was standing Beauty and the Beast Loneliness Brooklyn Bridge Then I was lying half asleep in the cold lower level of the Pennsylvania Station, staring at the morning Tribune, and waiting for the four o'clock train."" (p. 38) Although pomp and circumstance associates with these parties, Fitzgerald begins to foreshadow Nick's future abhorrence for them ... . In this quote, even though Nick might not realize the antipathy he would later hold against the upper class, he does end up in a place of desolation: at a train station four in the mornin...

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... diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the water. His Rolls-Royce, his station wagon and eight servants." These indicate that he is exceedingly wealthy. He began underprivileged and managed to achieve a majestic life. His vast wealth is portrayed with an aura of sophistication ... to escape her working class life, and become a prominent member of society; "At the news-stand she bought a copy of the Town Tattler and a moving-picture magazine, and in the station drug-store some cold cream and a small flask of perfum...

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... 's recollection and narrative, with characteristics similar to those of Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker. For instance, Tom Buchanan has an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson, the wife of a gas station proprietor down in the valley of the ashes - an industrial and unsightly area of Long Island that one passes through going to New York City. One day Tom insists on ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School