ead the excerpt from The Great Gatsby. The telephone rang inside, startlingly, and as Daisy shook her head decisively at Tom the
subject of the stables, in fact all subjects, vanished into air. Among the broken fragments of the last five minutes at table I remember the candles being lit again, pointlessly, and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one, and yet to avoid all eyes. I couldn’t guess what Daisy and Tom were thinking, but I doubt if even Miss Baker, who seemed to have mastered a certain hardy skepticism, was able utterly to put this fifth guest’s shrill metallic urgency out of mind. To a certain temperament the situation might have seemed intriguing—my own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police. The phone calls that Tom receives during the dinner are an indicator that he is trying to prevent his marriage from failing. he and Daisy are not a happily married couple. he would rather be in the city than on the island. he has important business deals in the works.
Answer: B) he and Daisy are not a happily married couple.
Explanation: In the given excerpt from "The Great Gatsby" we can see the description of a situation where Tom and Daisy are eating dinner with some guests, and suddenly, Tom receives a phone call, he answers the call, despite his wife's disapprobation. This situation repeats several times during dinner, the phone is even referred to as "the fifth guest." This phone calls that Tom receives during dinner are an indicator that he and Daisy are not a happily married couple.
William Golding held that a breakdown in the social order causes moral deterioration in the individual. This breakdown is suggested symbolically early in the narrative when Ralph and Piggy pull off their clothes, the trappings of society, and swim in the pool.
The author´s primary purpose is to compel readers or audiences to take action, convince them an idea through an argument, or to confirm their belief´s.
