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Fitzgerald and the Roaring Twenties

Question 15 • BT 26-27 English Language Arts 11 B

But I didn’t call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone—he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

Answer
f
fear and loathing.
s
sadness and loss.
s
sympathy and insight.
m
mystery and interest.

Explanation

The passage leaves Gatsby’s gesture unexplained: he reaches toward the dark water, then disappears, while Nick sees only a distant green light. These details create a sense of mystery and make the reader curious about what Gatsby wants and what the light means. The mood is not mainly fear and loathing, sadness and loss, or sympathy and insight.

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