Excerpt from The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald We walked through a high hallway into a bright rosy-colored space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows at
either end. The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into
the house. A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up
toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind
does on the sea
The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as
though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just
been blown back in after a short flight around the house. I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap
of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall. Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and
the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the
floor.
The younger of the two was a stranger to me. She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless,
and with her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall. If she saw me out of
the comer of her eyes she gave no hint of it-indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed
her by coming in
The author relies on which of the following fairly heavily in the passage?
Select one:
Wind metaphors
Personification of the occupants of the room
White sensory detail
Brisk dialogue