In this scene, Nick is reunited with his cousin, Daisy, and her husband and is introduced to Jordan. The colors associated with the fashionable East Egg are white and gold, suggesting wealth and beauty; however, all is not well in paradice. Dinner is interupted when the telephone rings, and Tom is called from the room to answer it. When Daisy follows him out, Jordan Baker confides to Nick that the call is from Tom's 'woman' in New York.
Gothic elements are presented in the book when the author reveals that Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are the same people just doubling. This is shown by revealing dark themes of the supernatural when Jekyll transforms into Hyde by the fear of committing horrific crimes as himself and feeling the guilt. Some gothic characteristics this gothic book includes is death and madness which is shown in one of the themes good versus evil. Jekyll and Hyde are metaphorical to the idea of good and evil exist in everyone and the struggle of the two sides raging within Jekyll which result in his death.
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "a. Most people seek to avoid death, but the old man looks for it." The ironic about the attitude that the old man has toward Death is that <span>a. Most people seek to avoid death, but the old man looks for it.</span>
