select the paradox in the passage.\n\ni would have accepted without question the information that gatsby…

select the paradox in the passage.\n\ni would have accepted without question the information that gatsby sprang from the swamps of louisiana or from the lower east side of new york. that was comprehensible. but young men didn’t—at least in my provincial inexperience i believed they didn’t—drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on long island sound.\n\n“anyhow, he gives large parties,” said jordan, changing the subject with an urban distaste for the concrete. “and i like large parties. they’re so intimate. at small parties there isn’t any privacy.”\n\nthere was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.\n\nfrom f. scott fitzgerald, the great gatsby. copyright 1925 by charles scribner’s sons

select the paradox in the passage.\n\ni would have accepted without question the information that gatsby sprang from the swamps of louisiana or from the lower east side of new york. that was comprehensible. but young men didn’t—at least in my provincial inexperience i believed they didn’t—drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on long island sound.\n\n“anyhow, he gives large parties,” said jordan, changing the subject with an urban distaste for the concrete. “and i like large parties. they’re so intimate. at small parties there isn’t any privacy.”\n\nthere was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.\n\nfrom f. scott fitzgerald, the great gatsby. copyright 1925 by charles scribner’s sons

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A paradox is a statement that seems self - contradictory but may reveal a truth. In the given passage, Jordan says "And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy." This is a paradox because large parties are typically thought of as less personal (not intimate) and small parties as more private. But Jordan flips these expectations.

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And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.