Read the following excerpt from f. scott fitzgerald's the great gatsby:
i spent my saturday nights in new york, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that i could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive. one night i did hear a material car there, and saw its lights stop at his front steps. but i didn't investigate. probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn't know that the party was over.
how does this excerpt contribute to the overall meaning of the great gatsby? what aesthetic impact is it meant to have on the reader? be sure to cite evidence from the reading to support your answer.

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Asentence teacher gives the following speech. prepare a brief speech to accompany your science project. the speech will be presented to a faculty panel selected as judges. include a summary of your hypothesis, methods, and results. provide an explanation of any pictures or charts one of your poster. also share any complications you encountered during the science fair process. who is the intended audience for the teachers speech? a. young students. b. peers at the science fair. c. teacher evaluators. d. science professionals

Princess and i are driving to tulsa to ecxcept an award.