even when the east excited me most, even when i was
most keenly aware of its superiority to the bored,
sprawling, swollen towns beyond the ohio, with their
interminable inquisitions which spared only the children
and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality
of distortion.
which statement most accurately analyzes the aesthetic impact of the
excerpt?
o
a. by summing up the novel's theme of the emptiness of the
american dream, the author leaves the reader feeling nick's sense
of disappointment
o
b. by reinforcing the objectivity that nick had in the opening pages of
the novel, the author leaves the reader feeling satisfied with the
novel's conclusion.
o
c. by contrasting the east's liberalism with the midwest's social
conservatism, the author comments further on the theme of the
shallowness of the wealthy.
o
d. by showing nick's detachment from the society of east egg and
west egg, the author leaves the reader feeling hopeful that he will
return home to ohio.

By contrasting the east's liberalism with the Midwest's social conservatism, the author comments further on the theme of the shallowness of the wealthy.

Option C.

Explanation:

According to the author in the chapter "The Great Gatsby", there is some kind of quality of distortion in the houses of the rich. They do not have a real lifestyle. They have a very twisted lifestyle which is not liked by the author.

He says that even though they are better than the people of the middle west and their conservatism, they have liberalism in their lifestyle. But still the rich in the east have the quality of distortion and it is fake and is superficial. Because of this he is disappointed. They simply have gratification of desires as the motive of living.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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