Question

2. The narrator recalls that another girl said, "I think he killed a man," which implies that,

O A. people have been spreading negative rumors about Gatsby's past.

O B. Gatsby has a criminal record that he is trying to hide.

C. under certain circumstances the narrator considers murder to be justified.

O D. people do not believe Gatsby was a killer any more than they believe he went

to Oxford.

Answer 1

A. people have been spreading negative rumors about Gatsby's past.

Step-by-step explanation:

When the narrator shows what the girl said about Gatsby, we can see that he is a controversial figure within the society that is inserted. Nobody knows much about him and with this mysterious past and the economic rise so fast that he presents, people start creating rumors and stories about him, many of these stories are negative, like the one that the girl heard.

With that, we can say that from the girl's speech, we can infer that people created negative rumors about Gatsby.