Passage Exposition
Directions: Write a clear, concise exposition paragraph of the following passage from The Great Gatsby, Chapter 2. Remember to answer each of the four following questions in paragraph form:
1) Give the context of the passage – who is speaking to whom? Where are they? What is the action happening?
2) Write a sentence or two about what the passage as a whole is about.
3) Use quotes to support yourself in your commenting about the important themes.
4) End with a sentence or two about how the passage relates to the rest of the book.
Remember to read the passage several times to get a full understanding before you begin writing.
Use the examples we read yesterday to help you, and put quotes into your writing using the grammar rules we are studying.
You may use a dictionary to help you with some words too!!
“The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was the dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner. It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste. He was a blonde, spiritless man, anaemic and faintly handsome. When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his eyes.”
The Great Gatsby Passage Exposition
Directions: Write a clear, concise exposition paragraph of one of the following passages from The Great Gatsby, Chapter 4. Remember to answer each of the four following questions in paragraph form:
1) Give the context of the passage – who is speaking to whom? Where are they? What is the action happening?
2) Write a sentence or two about what the passage as a whole is about.
3) Use quotes to support yourself in your commenting about the important themes.
4) End with a sentence or two about how the passage relates to the rest of the book.
"I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back and I thought I'd never seen a girl so mad about her husband. If he left the room for a minute she'd look around uneasily and say "Where's Tom gone?" and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door. She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour rubbing her fingers over his eyes and looking at him with unfathomable delight. It was touching to see them together -- it made you laugh in a hushed, fascinated way. That was in August. A week later after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night and ripped a front wheel off his car. The girl who was with him got into the papers too because her arm was broken -- she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara hotel."
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…"I understand you're looking for a business gonnegtion."
"Oh, no," he exclaimed, "this isn't the man!"
"No?" Mr. Wolfshiem seemed disappointed.
"This is just a friend. I told you we'd talk about that some other time."
"I beg your pardon," said Mr. Wolfshiem. "I had a wrong man." …
"Who is he anyhow--an actor?"
"Meyer Wolfshiem? No, he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: "He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919."
"Fixed the World's Series?" I repeated.
The idea staggered me.