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liamgreene90
23.06.2019 • 
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Read and annotate the text below identifying as many themes and language techniques as you can. /8 extract: from f. scott fitzgerald's the great gatsby (1925) the great gatsby tells the story of a mysteriously wealthy financier, jay gatsby, and his love for daisy buchanan. it is narrated by a minor character, nick carraway, who is gatsby's neighbour for the summer and a distant cousin of daisy's. carraway observes the destructive lifestyles of the wealthy socialites and their hangers-on and watches as things inevitably fall apart. in the following extract, nick carraway describes the lavish parties which gatsby throws every weekend at his mansion: there was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. in his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. at high tide in the afternoon i watched his guests 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 waters of the sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. on weekends his rolls-royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. and on mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night at least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a christmas tree of gatsby's enormous garden. on buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. in the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another. glossary: aquaplanes- a board for riding on water, pulled by a speedboat. cataracts -a large waterfall. omnibus-a bus corps-a body of people engaged in a particular activity hors-d'oeuvre- small finger foods

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