As we've noted, there are patterns to Fitzgerald's approach to writing Gatsby. So, when we detect a break from an established pattern, it is important to think about what Fitzgerald has done and why we think he may have made that change. On this page,
we are introduced to Gatsby, but the way he is introduced is much different from how Tom (8-9), Daisy and Jordan (10-11),
George (27-28), and Myrtle (28-29) are introduced. How is it different? Why do you think Fitzgerald made that change?

The one certain thing about the message you sent to the receiver is that the receiver will: a)process the information sequentially, not simultaneously. b)interpret it based on their framework of experience. c)not be able to interpret all the relevant information. d)revise his/her premises according to the information sent.

Which statement best paraphrases these sentences from the text

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.