1. “‘I just remembered that today’s my birthday.’
I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade…Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair. But there was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age. As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat’s shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away” (Fitzgerald 135—136).
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Nick Carraway
Question #1: What words are repeated in this excerpt? What’s the effect of this repetition?
Question #2: What’s Nick’s tone in this passage? What diction or syntax creates/supports this tone?
Application: Write two or three sentences expressing a joyful tone for Valentine’s Day.