In this passage, Nick reflects on what the landscape must have looked like when the Dutch explorers arrived to the continent. He is looking at Gatsby's house, and at this point in the novel, we know that Nick believes that New York, as well as the people he has met, are vile, corrupt and greedy. He contrasts this view with that of the pristine continent on the arrival of the European settlers.
The phrase "fresh, green breast of the New World" presents a view that is "fresh." The land is new, but it is also fresh in the sense that it is not rotten. The land has not yet been "infected" with the corruption of modern times. Therefore, the phrase is intended to represent a time before America had become a land of greed and vice.
A) The food has become so scarce that we eat beans and potatoes in everything, including in our bread.
When I was answering this questions I was stuck between A and B, but I realized that A was the correct answer. The description of the lack of food shows you how the food has gotten so scarce because of to the poverty due to the war. On the other hand, answer B shows that there are high levels of stress, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it has to do with the war.
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Answer: To put it bluntly, “Thanatopsis” is about death. The word thanatopsis itself derives from the Greek roots thanatos death and opsis sight. In other words, the poem always has death in its sights. One of the speaker's main goals seems simply to make death and its inevitability vivid for the poem's readers.
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The answer is b: that we saw last month
