Chapter 4 Flashcards

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The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned character leaking sawdust at every pore

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-Here Gatsby is trying to persuade Nick of his past during the car ride.
-However it comes off as a poor imitation of a depiction of a storybook.
-This imitation of an old money lifestyle is not reality, Gatsby is unaware of that.

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She dressed in white, and had a little white roadster and all day long the telephone rang in her house

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-Description of Daisy when she was young from Jordan’s pov.
-Repetition on white reinforces the Anglo Saxon heritage and the racial aspect of American society
-the telephone connotes wealth and modernity

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