Your understanding of the author’s ideas and intentions

Your understanding of the author’s ideas and intentions

Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction--Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life...

Text to Self: I’ve met people who seem to be part of a group of people you hate but then they turn out to be likable for some reason.

Text to World: Celebrities often become representative of the rich, spoiled American Dream even if they do not actually live that sort of life

Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction--Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life...

Why does he evoke both “scorn” and This This metaphor comparing “gorgeous” qualitiespersonality to a series of choreographedphysical movements make it seem like he is graceful

Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction--Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life...

So Gatsby represents what he doesn’t likeThis is just summarizing the text—this is not productive annotating

He’s good lookingThis is too basic a characterization