Focus on Literature 7
Exercise
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Read and listen to the text. What do we learn about Gatsby from Nick's observations? Find evidence in the text for the following.
Solution
- 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.
- The story is told in the first person by Nick Carraway... who rents a summer cottage next to Gatsby.
- The air is alive with chatter and laughter, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.