"Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy of bay, just out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great barnyard of Long Island Sound" (Fitzgerald 9). ... And when Nick talks about the green light at the end of the book he says "It eluded us then, but that's no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms out farther....". ... Fitzgerald uses the word careless a lot in describing most of the people and events in this book. ...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby. ... The Sound, which is the lake, is also green and Nick describes it to be "a fresh, green breast of the new world," where the "greatest of all human dreams," lay and in its presence it "compelled an aesthetic contemplation he (Gatsby) neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder" (180). ...

• Word Count: 1317
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School