Answer:
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.
C) an argumentative essay is based completely on fact.
Answer:
They over use and analyse some certain topics and make a big deal about such topics
I am a dense thinker; I am constantly being bombarded by feedback from the world around me, and thus am unable to process bulks of information at a time. The small bit of feedback I do maintain, Is usually useless, and therefor is discarded later on. I am in my best environment when I flippantly flop on my bed and slip into a world of my own, comprised of nonsensical 'philosophy'. I truly enjoy this because I have no pressure to acknowledge the chaotic world around me, or to intelligently accomplish anything. Of course, this also means that the majority of my time is spent dozing off and/or being a sheep: unable to think for myself and following people who decide what is right for me. Sometimes, when I put real effort into my activities, I accomplish more than I thought I could. However, effort is hard, so I try to avoid it. That strategy works best for my type of thinking.
<u>The mood of this passage is GLOOMY AND MELANCHOLY.</u>
The prevailing emotion or mood found in the excerpt is gloomy/melancholy. This is clear when we pay attention to the author's approach to the main character and the overall setting: the character wakes up in impenetrable "blackness", there's no sound but the wind in the "blackened trees", he stood on a "cold autistic dark", and so on and so forth. All the setting is filled with darkness, there is nothing that evokes to something cheerful or enjoyable and the character is pensive in the middle of all that.
