Answer:particularly, his ability to be involved in the shallow, fast paced lifestyle of Gatsby and the others, while maintaining his moral center. Nick is attracted to the rich and glamorous ways of the other characters, but he is more realistic about life.
Explanation:
<span>A. The mother, twisting and waiting quietly, her ring circled a pale finger.</span>
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[She] had kindled the callow fancy of the most idle and shiftless of all
the village lads, and had conceived for this Howard Carpenter one of
those absurd and extravagant passions which a handsome country boy of
twenty one sometimes inspires in a plain, angular, spectacled woman of
thirty. (Willa Cather, "A Wagner Matinee")
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