Answer:
Financial wealth is desirable to the narrator.
Explanation:
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story about the protagonist Jay Gatsby's tragic story of his pursuit of his young love Daisy Buchanan. Daisy is a wealthy young woman married to Tom Buchanan, while Jay is a self made millionaire.
The story is narrated by Nick Carraway who had moved to this part of town. He is seen describing his house in chapter 1, saying that his <em>"own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore.......</em>". His use of the phrases <em>"the consoling proximity of millionaires"</em> and<em> "white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered" </em>shows that Nick considers financial wealth desirable. He says that staying in close proximity to millionaires is consoling, and the houses in East Egg are fashionable white palaces, glittering, looking attractive in comparison to his own house in West Egg.
Answer: A plateau period is when you are in a place where nothing hasn’t moved concerning a situation.
Explanation: For example, someone can have a plateau in weight, where the scale isn’t moving up or down it’s just staying the same.
The sentence that reflects the theme of magic in this excerpt is: "The withered tree at once burst into full bloom".
Self reliance is reliance on one's own powers and resources rather than those of others.
