Nick comes from a wealthy family...his grandfather paid a man to serve for him in the civil war so that he would make money while all the working men were away.
He is blinded, to some degree, of the atrocities of the American Dream and the "foul dust" that floats in the wake of Gatsby's dreams.
Answer:
Alice is trying to grow up too quickly.
Explanation:
<em>Through the Looking-Glass </em>is a novel written by Lewis Carroll as the sequel to <em>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.</em>
In the given scene, the Red Queen reveals to Alice that the entire countryside is laid out in squares, like a huge chessboard, and offers to make Alice a queen if she can move all the way to the eighth rank/row in a chess match.
The symbolic meaning that can be drawn from the given excerpt is that Alice is trying to grow up too quickly. It seems like she wants to become a queen before it's time, before she has passed the proper examination.
1.B 2.C 3.A 4.B 5.B 6.A 7.C 8.A 9.A
