English, 25.02.2021 01:00 AJSkullcrusher

Vast: Why Nick uses “vast” to describe Gatsby’s God:

Vulgar:
Why Nick uses “vulgar” to describe Gatsby’s God:

Meretricious:
Why Nick uses “meretricious” to describe Gatsby’s God:

the paragraph:
“I suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people; his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God, a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that and he must be about His Father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen−year−old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception, he was faithful to the end” (98).

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