Question

Read the excerpt from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.Based on this excerpt, what inference can be made about the Buchanans?A. They are people of exquisite taste and refinement, who have spent a fortune on the decorations of their home.B. The image of luxury and elegance that they project is unstable like the wind blowing through the room.C. The Buchanans have fallen on desperate times and are trying to mask their financial collapse from friends.D. Like the open windows of their house, the Buchanans openly embrace new people and new ideas.

Answer 1

Answer:

B. The image of luxury and elegance that they project is unstable like the wind blowing through the room.

Explanation:

The Buchanans- Tom and his wife Daisy, may seem like the perfect couple with the wealth and status to be envious of, in reality, they are nothing but mere farce. They both have affairs- Tom with Myrtle while Daisy is with Jay Gatsby who also turns out to be her former lover. While the description shows the perfect image of the perfect household, with their curtains and rugs that is representative of their wealth, the image of luxury and elegance that it projects is unstable like the wind that is blowing through the room. There is no stability in the house, be it in their personal lives or even in the house. It will later turn out at the end of the story that things will all be disrupted and will be in disarray.