Read the excerpt from the great gatsby.
twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out
into the most domesticated body of salt water in the western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of long island sound.
they were not perfect ovals-like the egg in the columbus story, they are both crushed flat at the contact end-but their
physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead. to the wingless a more
arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
i lived at west egg, the-well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre
and not a little sinister contrast between them.
the use of words such as "fashionable," "superficial," "bizarre," and "sinister" provide
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In “we wear the mask,” which message is conveyed by dunbar’s repetition of the phrase “we wear the mask”?
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Explain the metaphor beyond the symbol by choosing the phrase that establishes what is similar in the pair of words. select the item that best expresses this. use your notes if you need them. poverty: riches
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Read the excerpt from the great gatsby.
twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, id...
twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, id...
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