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Read the following excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby:

He saw me looking with admiration at his car. "It's pretty, isn't it, old sport!" He jumped off to give me a better view. "Haven't you ever seen it before?" I'd seen it. Everybody had seen it. It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns. Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory, we started to town.
Which statement provides the best analysis of the symbolism in the passage?
A. The repetition of the word "box" represents the constraints people place on themselves.
B. The cream color of the car stands for one striving for the American Dream.
C. The car represents the decadence and excess of the 1920s.
D. The word "monstrous" conveys the abandonment of morality.

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Answer: C. The car represents the decadence and excess of the 1920s.

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is considered the author's magnum opus.

The novel portrays the life of the rich classes of Long Island during the 1920s. This period, often referred to as the "Roaring Twenties" was significant for the opulence and excess displayed by society. The book is considered a critique of the American Dream, and of the decadence, idealism and excess of the decade. The car in the excerpt is an example of this theme.

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C

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