34. Insert prepositions where necessary and translate the sentences:

1. It transpired … a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby’s name around his office … a connection which he either wouldn’t reveal or didn’t fully understand. 2. Gatsby’s notoriety, spread … … the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so became authorities … his past, had increased all summer until he fell just short … being news. 3. So he invented just the sort … Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year-old boy would be likely to invent, and … this conception he was faithful … the end. 4. … young Gatz, resting … his oars and looking … … the railed deck, that yacht represented all the beauty and glamour … the world. 5. Tom and I shook hands, the rest … us exchanged … a cool nod, and they trotted quickly … the drive, disappearing … the August foliage just as Gatsby, with hat and light overcoat … hand, came … the front door. 6. Or perhaps I had merely grown used … it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete … itself, … its own standards and its own great figures, second … nothing because it had no consciousness … being so, and now I was looking … it again, … Daisy’s eyes. 7. ‘I’d rather look … all these famous people … – … oblivion”. 8. They were still … the white-plum tree and their faces were touching except … a pale, thin ray of moonlight… . 9. Daisy began to sing … the music … a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing … a meaning … each word that it had never had before and would never have again. 10. And I think I’ll make a point … finding… . 11. He looked … him wildly, as if the past were luring here … the shadow of this house, just … … reach … his hand.

35. Give synonyms to the following words used in this chapter:

    1. Hospitality, conceit, embrace, legacy, gratitude, profusion, commotion, oblivion, proximity, vigour.

    2. Persistent, contemptuous, ineffable, savoury, sparkling, obtrusive, radiant, unutterable, discarded, perishable.

36. Translate into Russian (in writing) two of the following passages and comment on the transformations that you have chosen:

    1. From “It transpired after a confused five minutes…” to “…isn’t easy to say”.

    2. From “For over a year he had been beating his way…” to “…he took for granted”.

    3. From “He told me this very much later…” to “…it hadn’t happened before”.

    4. From “Tom was evidently perturbed…” to “…your own powers of adjustment”.

    5. From “It was like that. …” to “…she failed to understand”.

37. In this novel, one of the problems that Fitzgerald raises is: “Should people live their lives yearning for something in the past?Is it acceptable to live one’s whole life on a past experience or memory hoping to reach back in time and pull the past to the present. Is it healthy?” What is your answer to this question? Can you think of your contemporaries who attempted to “repeat the past”?

The Great Gatsby By f.S. Fitzgerald (Chapter 7/1)

38. Find the following expressions in the text and describe the situations in which they were used:

to squint morbid to overtake

broiling gravel brakes

awning to hover strain

bona-fide deal savagely profound

to croon indiscreet inexplicable

tension boisterously

stagnant tentatively

39. Answer the following questions:

    1. Why was Nick worried about Gatsby?

    2. What made Gatsby change all the servants in his house? Why was he so anxious to keep his image without blemish?

    3. What were the things Tom Buchanan disliked about Jay Gatsby from the very beginning?

    4. How did Daisy treat her daughter? Do you think she was a good mother?

    5. Why could not Gatsby “say anything in his (Tom’s) house”? What did he want to say? Speak about Tom and Gatsby’s behaviour when they were out in the open at last?

    6. Why was Daisy hesitant to tell Tom that she was in love with Gatsby? How did Tom understand it?

    7. How did Tom take the news that his wife loved Gatsby? Compare his reaction to Mr. Wilson’s, when the latter made a parallel discovery?

    8. Whose eyes were watching Tom when he stopped to get some gas?

    9. What, do you think, Tom meant when he said: “And if it runs out I can stop at a drug-store. You can buy anything at a drug-store nowadays”.

    10. What role does the description of heat play in the narration?

    11. Comment on the meaning of the following phrases:

So the whole caravansary had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes.

Her voice struggled on through the heat, beating against it, moulding its senselessness into forms.

It was full of money – that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.

The immediate contingency overtook him, pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.

…it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

40. Find the following expressions in the text and use them in the examples of your own:

твердое мнение; это неспроста; общий запас жизненных сил; с хорошо скрытой неприязнью; хорошо вымуштрованное дитя; чуть не со слезами; как хочешь; безобидное замечание; не дав ему свалиться в бездну отвлеченных умствований; в облаке пыли.