In recent days, many US media have expressed emotion: The once hopeful summer is ending in despair. At the beginning of this summer, the epidemic in the United States improved for a while, and people hopefully believe that the worst is over. However, with the spread of the delta strain, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new crowns in the United States exceeded 40 million on September 6. The number of deaths is rising, hospitals are overcrowded, and people are painfully aware that the new crown virus will become a part of American lives. According to U. S. media reports on the 6th, U. S. Military Medical Director Vivek Mersey said that the U. S. epidemic will not have a significant turning point in the short term, and the opportunity to get rid of the new crown virus has been missed.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here?