The Great Gatsby chapter 6 reading question “You can’t repeat the past.”

“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”

He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

“I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,” he said, nodding determinedly. “She’ll see” (Fitzgerald 116-7).

1. Throughout the novel, where do you see indication that Gatsby would like to recreate the past?

2. In the quote above, Nick suggests two locations where Gatsby seems to think the past is: 1) in the shadow of the house, and 2) just out of Gatsby’s reach. What is significant about each of these “locations” for the past?

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

Pls due today which excerpt from the text most effectively demonstrates that the narrator's point of view about the cabuliwallah has changed? "i felt a little sorry, and would have called him back, but i found he was returning of his own accord." "i sent for mini immediately from the inner apartment. many difficulties were raised, but i would not listen." "tears came to my eyes. i forgot that he was a poor cabuli fruit-seller, while i was—. but no, what was i more than he? he also was a father." "i took them and was going to pay him, but he caught my hand and said: "you are very kind, sir! keep me in your recollection. do not offer me money! —"

Which is not a controlling idea in the essay? a) average joggers b) importance of tradition eliminate c) olympic-level competitors d) fräbel-designed crystal peach