English, 25.10.2019 00:43 zeesharpe05

Which of the following quotes would lead you to believe that jay gatz was unhappy with his present life?

a. “for over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of lake superior as a clam-digger and a salmon-fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed.”

b. “he knew women early, and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant, of the others because they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorbtion he took for granted.”

c. “but his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. the most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night.”

d. “so he invented just the sort of jay gatsby that a seventeen-year-old-boy would be likely to invent, and to his conception he was faithful to the end.”

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