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Your understanding of the author’s ideas and intentions

Your understanding of the author’s ideas and intentions.

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Your understanding of the author’s ideas and intentions

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  1. Your understanding of the author’s ideas and intentions

  2. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction--Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life... Text to Self: I’ve met people who seem to be part of a group of people you hate but then they turn out to be likable for some reason. Text to World: Celebrities often become representative of the rich, spoiled American Dream even if they do not actually live that sort of life

  3. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction--Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life... Why does he evoke both “scorn” and This This metaphor comparing “gorgeous” qualities personality to a series of choreographed physical movements make it seem like he is graceful

  4. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction--Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life... So Gatsby represents what he doesn’t like This is just summarizing the text—this is not productive annotating He’s good looking This is too basic a characterization

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