Gatsby is nervous about meeting Daisy at Nick's place. He is panicking and Nick tells him to stop acting like a little boy.
<u>The mood of this passage is GLOOMY AND MELANCHOLY.</u>
The prevailing emotion or mood found in the excerpt is gloomy/melancholy. This is clear when we pay attention to the author's approach to the main character and the overall setting: the character wakes up in impenetrable "blackness", there's no sound but the wind in the "blackened trees", he stood on a "cold autistic dark", and so on and so forth. All the setting is filled with darkness, there is nothing that evokes to something cheerful or enjoyable and the character is pensive in the middle of all that.
Answer:
Any person can sit in a stupor and watch the world go by if they so choose; the alternative is be active in that world rather than one day wake up and see all of what you might have done, and realize there is too little time left to do so.
Explanation:
Explanation:
cause his parents sent him to his grandfather house who was a retriever