Who is heI demanded. "Do you know?"
"He's just a man named Gatsby.
"Where is he from, I mean? And what does he do?"
"Now you're started on the subject," she answered with a wan smile. "Well, he told me once he was an Oxford man."
A dim background started to take shape behind him, but at her next remark it faded away.
"However, I don't believe it."
“Why not?
"I don't know," she insisted, "I just don't think he went there.
Questions:
A. What is the title of the novel from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author?
B. What does Gatsby's failure stand for?
C. What does the underlined sentence mean?
A. The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald.
B. His failure stands for the end of American Dream.
C. People began to know something about his background, but the following conversation indicated that his background information was false.
