Love and loss

Question 1

Paragraph 1
(TGG + S(AFK))

Answer 1

The authors portray relationships as doomed to fail, love and loss are destined to be together.
TGG-
1) “you can’t repeat the past? why of course you can!”
2) “but it was all going too fast … he had lost that part of it … forever”
3) “To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size”. (The eggs)
S(AFK)-
1) “Who shall say that Fortune grieves him”
2) “Fare-thee-weel” (trying to delay the inevitable)
3) “Never met - or never parted, We had ne’er been broken-hearted”

Question 2

Paragraph 2
(TGG + GOL)

Answer 2

The love of power and greed causes the loss of religion and faith.
TGG-
1) “It increased her value in his eyes”
2) “‘His eyes dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground”
3) “The green light”
4) “Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.”
GOL-
1) “And tomb-stones where flowers should be”
2) “And binding with briars my joys and desires”
3) “And ‘thou shalt not’ writ over the door”

Question 3

Paragraph 3
(TGG + S(AFK))

Answer 3

The writers present the loss of oneself as the price of love.
TGG-
1) “Ghostly piano”
2) “‘Jay Gatsby’ had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice”
3) “He has lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream”
S(AFK)-
1) “Warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee” (s + g are the price he pays)
2) “Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love, and Pleasure!”
3) “Dark despair around benights me.”