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Chapter 7
A. Koff I. Torres M. Hernandez

Chapter 7
Main Thesis:

People as a whole are capable of building themselves up and rising above their circumstances, but they are always left with that human sense of blindness and unhappiness. Every human, no matter how rich or poor, is left with a sense of a need for closeness as well as distance from their fellow humans providing for an interesting and confusing combination.

Question One:

1. Compare Trimalchio, the hero or protagonist of The Satyricon, to Gatsby.

Answer to question one

Question Two:

2. Trace the recurring image of eyes, and ascertain the purposes of those images. Consider blindness on any level as well as sight.

Answer to question two

Question Three:

3. Compare the two passages below from T. S. Eliot’s [|The Wasteland] with remarkably similar ones from The Great Gatsby. Better still, find a copy of the poem and discover other passages which correspond. What do the similarities suggest?

Answer to question three

Question Four:

4.Explain the significance of the comments: “They weren’t happy. . . and yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.”

Answer to question four

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