A. people have been spreading negative rumors about Gatsby's past.
Explanation:
When the narrator shows what the girl said about Gatsby, we can see that he is a controversial figure within the society that is inserted. Nobody knows much about him and with this mysterious past and the economic rise so fast that he presents, people start creating rumors and stories about him, many of these stories are negative, like the one that the girl heard.
With that, we can say that from the girl's speech, we can infer that people created negative rumors about Gatsby.
While Há's mother accepts her husband is gone, she can build a stronger bond with her family she has left, she realizes she must move forward in life to better her kid's life.
b) Romantic passion has as many negative consequences on a person as it does positive effects. Homer understood that love has specific chemical effects on how a person's brain functions.
