moment, that other eyes were regarding us with
peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away.
In one of the windows over the garage the curtains
had been moved aside a little, and Myrtle Wilson was
peering down at the car. So engrossed was she that
she had no consciousness of being observed, and one
emotion after another crept into her face like objects
into a slowly developing picture. Her expression was
curiously familiar-it was an expression I had often
seen on women's faces,but on Myrtle Wilson's face it
seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized
that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not
on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be
his wife.
Which of the following passages from this
excerpt of "The Great Gatsby" helps to advance
the theme that our vices and indulgence are
judged by a higher power?
Her expression was curiously familiar-
Over the ash-heaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J.
Eckleburg kept their vigil,
In one of the windows over the garage the curtains had
been moved aside a little,