Question

"There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year's shining motor cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered.”

How do the length and syntax of this sentence emphasize what Gatsby feels about Daisy’s house?

Question 17 options:

The length and syntax reveal Gatsby’s annoyance about being in Daisy’s tiny house.


The length and syntax reveal Gatsby’s excitement and arousal about being in Daisy’s large house.


The length and syntax reveal Gatsby’s fear of rejection by his cruel cousin Daisy.


The length and syntax reveal that Gatsby doesn’t want to be in Daisy’s house because it is overwhelming.

Answer 1

The answer is:

The length and syntax reveal Gatsby’s excitement and arousal about being in Daisy’s large house.

In the excerpt from "The Great Gatsby," the author Francis Scott Fitzgerald suggests the excitement and exhilaration Gatsby feels at Daisy's house. For instance, he describes the bedrooms upstairs as mysterious, more beautiful and cooler than the others, and wonders what joyful and cheerful happenings and affairs might occur there.