Read the following excerpt from the last chapter of the great gatsby. after gatsby's death the east was haunted for me like that, distroted beyond my eyes' power of correction. so when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line i decided to come back home. which statement most plausibly analyzes the aesthetic impact of the excerpt?

The statement which most plausibly analyzes the aesthetic impact of the excerpt is: "After Gatsby's death the east was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction." It means that Gatsby's passing had such an impact on the main character that it made him become unable to see the east the same way he did before. The impact was strong and affected not only the main character's emotions, but also his aesthetic sense to the point of making him see the east in a different, "distorted" way, and that beyond his eyes' "power of correction", which means that no matter how hard he tried, after his friend's death the east started to look different, or aesthetically different.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)