Which three parts of this excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" reflect Dexter’s final disillusionment?When, in a few minutes, Devlin went he lay down on his lounge and looked out the window at the New York sky-line into which the sun was sinking in dull lovely shades of pink and gold.He had thought that having nothing else to lose he was invulnerable at last—but he knew that he had just lost something more, as surely as if he had married Judy Jones and seen her fade away before his eyes. The dream was gone. Something had been taken from him. In a sort of panic he pushed the palms of his hands into his eyes and tried to bring up a picture of the waters lapping on Sherry Island and the moonlit veranda, and gingham on the golf-links and the dry sun and the gold color of her neck's soft down. And her mouth damp to his kisses and her eyes plaintive with melancholy and her freshness like new fine linen in the morning.

What does this excerpt from the beginning of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Winter Dreams" tell readers about Dexter's motivations as a character?He became a golf champion and defeated Mr. T. A. Hedrick in a marvellous match played a hundred times over the fairways of his imagination, a match each detail of which he changed about untiringly—sometimes he won with almost laughable ease, sometimes he came up magnificently from behind. Again, stepping from a Pierce-Arrow automobile, like Mr. Mortimer Jones, he strolled frigidly into the lounge of the Sherry Island Golf Club—or perhaps, surrounded by an admiring crowd, he gave an exhibition of fancy diving from the spring-board of the club raft. . . . Among those who watched him in open-mouthed wonder was Mr. Mortimer Jones. A. Dexter dreams of upstaging Mortimer Jones at golf and gaining his admiration. B. Dexter dreams of becoming a champion golfer and buying an expensive automobile with the winnings. C. Dexter dreams of being admitted into high society and gaining its admiration. D. Dexter dreams of befriending Mortimer Jones so he can convince him to give him a job. E. Dexter dreams of impressing Mortimer Jones so he can borrow his automobile.

Which two parts of this excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" helps build anticipation in the story?Dexter put on his bathing-suit and swam out to the farthest raft, where he stretched dripping on the wet canvas of the springboard.There was a fish jumping and a star shining and the lights around the lake were gleaming. Over on a dark peninsula a piano was playing the songs of last summer and of summers before that—songs from "Chin-Chin" and "The Count of Luxemburg" and "The Chocolate Soldier"—and because the sound of a piano over a stretch of water had always seemed beautiful to Dexter he lay perfectly quiet and listened.The tune the piano was playing at that moment had been gay and new five years before when Dexter was a sophomore at college. They had played it at a prom once when he could not afford the luxury of proms, and he had stood outside the gymnasium and listened. The sound of the tune precipitated in him a sort of ecstasy and it was with that ecstasy he viewed what happened to him now. It was a mood of intense appreciation, a sense that, for once, he was magnificently attune to life and that everything about him was radiating a brightness and a glamour he might never know again.

The following text is Robert Frost’s 1921 poem “The Oft-Repeated Dream.”She had no saying dark enough     For the dark pine that keptForever trying the window-latch     Of the room where they sleptThe tireless but ineffectual hands     That with every futile passMade the great tree seem as a little bird     Before the mystery of glass!It never had been inside the room,     And only one of the twoWas afraid in an oft-repeated dream     Of what the tree might do.Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?It establishes the setting as the bedroom of two children.eliminateIt conveys that the tree seems alive from the point of view of the girl in the poem.eliminateIt foreshadows imminent danger that will befall the two figures in the poem.eliminateIt demonstrates the differences in each child’s perception of the tree.

What does the following quote suggest about Gatsby’s feelings about his reunion with Daisy?There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams — not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. Group of answer choicesGatsby is disappointed that Daisy does not love him as much as she used to.It would have been impossible for Daisy to live up to the expectations that he has built up.It would have been impossible for Daisy to disappoint Gatsby because he loves her so much.Gatsby is disappointed that he does not love Daisy as much as he used to.

Read this passage:MACBETH. We will proceed no further in this business:He hath honour'd me of late; and I have boughtGolden opinions from all sorts of people,Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,Not cast aside so soon.LADY MACBETH. Was the hope drunkWherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?And wakes it now, to look so green and paleAt what it did so freely? From this timeSuch I account thy love. Art thou afeardTo be the same in thine own act and valourAs thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have thatWhich thou esteem'st the ornament of life,And live a coward in thine own esteem,Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would,"Like the poor cat i' the adage?MACBETH. Prithee, peace:I dare do all that may become a man;Who dares do more is none.William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scene viiWhat evidence from the text supports the idea that Lady Macbeth believes her husband is too weak and cowardly to kill the king?A.We will proceed no further in this business: / He hath honour'd me of lateB.Art thou afeard / To be the same in thine own act and valour / As thou art in desire?C.I have bought / Golden opinions from all sorts of people, / Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, / Not cast aside so soon.D.Prithee, peace: / I dare do all that may become a man; / Who dares do more is none.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS