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Pg. 24 Sworn Friends pdf

“A chauffeur in a uniform of robin's−egg blue…” Shows that he his a blue collar worker

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Pg. 5
"I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two..."
"Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg..."
These two sides show if someone is from a wealthy family or if they are new to wealth.

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"bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers, and a yachting cap." Gatsby was working a blue collar job on the boat, but he would eventually become white collar.

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“in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold−colored tie, hurried in. He pale, and there were dark signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes. “

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(Swornfriends) 14
"gray men swarm up
with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud"
Gray represents the poor conditions of the valley of ashes

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“I looked around. Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands.”

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Page 44
“Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside--East Egg condescending to West Egg…”

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"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." (23)

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Page 107
“She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented “place” that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village--appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obstructive face that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing.”

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“I suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people – his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.”

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Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe−de−chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there
was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

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Page  98
“James Gatz--that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career…”

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Page 103
“but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.”

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The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic — their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.

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"Making a short def movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand."

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"What part of the Middle West?" I inquired casually. "San Francisco." "I see." Shows how Gatsby lives a lying lifestyle, as he was very quick to lie to Nick to keep his story straight

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“Suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people… The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island… So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.”

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'With Jordan's slender golden arm resting in mine,"

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pg:8
"They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if
they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house."

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Page 65
“I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West--all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years.”

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Examples of Gatsby not functioning fully within East egg social circle b/c he's from W. egg

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Examples of Gatsby not functioning fully within East egg social circle b/c he's from W. egg

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p. 103 + 107

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"-pink rag of a suit made a bright spot of color against the white steps,"  pg.154

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"-pink rag of a suit made a bright spot of color against the white steps,"  pg.154

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Gatsby's flamboyant dress style goes against the "refined taste" that East Eggers have. The contrast of the pink against the white shows he won't ever fit in with them/ maybe is unable to fully attain the American dream