Read the below snippets of dialogue from Daisy and Tom. Daisy is Nick’s cousin. Tom is her husband. DAISY: “Well, I’ve had a very bad time, Nick, and I’m pretty cynical about everything...[about her daughter]...let me tell you what I said when she was born. Would you like to hear?...It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about--things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool--that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool TOM: “Civilization’s going to pieces...I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read ‘The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard?...Well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved...Well, these books are all scientific...This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.” Station 3: Meet and greet the characters! Read the below snippets of dialogue from Daisy and Tom. Daisy is Nick’s cousin. Tom is her husband. Questions 1. What does the first passage reveal about Daisy’s character? Explain using TEXTUAL EVIDENCE. 2. What does the second passage reveal about Tom’s character. Explain using TEXTUAL EVIDENCE. Station 4: Meet and greet the characters! Read the below excerpt in which Nick describes his attitude toward the East and Gatsby. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction — Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament.”— it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No — Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. Questions: 1. What does this passage reveal about Gatsby? Explain using TEXTUAL EVIDENCE. ’ 2. What do you think happened to Gatsby? Make a prediction based upon Nick s commentary in this passage.