As Nick Carraway mentions in this quote, Tom uses his earnings to travel particularly for his affairs and for pleasure, although Gatsby sees his money as the one thing that can win him his happiness, Daisy, which is why they could not marry five years prior. ... This evidence is shown in the following quote: "The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names" ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright, passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered 'Listen', a promise that had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour" (14). ... Light is one of the main symbols in The Great Gatsby; for Gatsby, it is a symbol for hope; conversely, in this quote, it is a symbol representing her fatal outcome and misfortune of hopelessnes...

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• Grade Level: High School