My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so i had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires all for eighty dollars a month. across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable east egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening i drove over there. what message do phrases such as 'the consoling proximity of millionaires' and 'white palaces of fashionable east egg glittered' convey to the reader?

It suggests that the narrator considers financial wealth as desirable for him.

Explanation:

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby" is about the lives of people living in two ends of the town, East Egg and West Egg. While one side represents all the wealth and good of people, the other side consists of those lesser wealthy people who try to live alongside the wealthier ones.

The passage provided in the question are from the first chapter of the text where Nick Carraway provides an introduction into the world of the 'new rich' West Egg in comparison to that of the already wealthy part East Egg. He states that his house was an eyesore but it also provides a "consoling proximity" to the "white palaces of fashionable East Egg". To him, being within view of this 'better' part of the town is still a good factor, for it made him feel as if he is also a part of that side of town. The use of the phrases all seem to show the desire of Nick about financial wealth and the effects it can have on the person, giving him a better, desirable position in life. He considers wealth as a driving factor for one's situation in life.

the answern should be b, if it is the part where the mob has gathered

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.