GG+AOI: Society And Class

Question 1

AOI:
‘What was or not the “the thing” played a part as important in Newland Archer’s New York as the inscrutable totem terrors that had ruled the destinies of his forefathers thousands of years ago’ ~ Narrator

Answer 1

GG
‘I lived at West Egg, the - well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial brag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them’ ~ Nick Carraway

Question 2

AOI:
‘Singly they betrayed their inferiority; but grouped together they represented “New York,” and the habit of masculine solidarity made him accept their doctrine in all issues called moral’ ~ Newland Archer

Answer 2

GG:
‘They were careless people Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures then retreated back into their money’ ~ Nick Carraway

Question 3

AOI:
The individual, in such cases, is nearly always sacrificed to what is supposed to the collective interest: people cling to any convention that keeps the family together - protects the children, if there are any’ ~ Newland Archer

Answer 3

GG:
‘I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them’ ~ Nick Carraway