Read this excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby:
"About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a cerain desolate area of land." Where does the story most likely take place?
A.
a borough of New York City
B.
a rural area that's still accessible to New York
B. a rural area that's still accessible to New York
Explanation:
A rural area because of a "desolate area of land". It would still be accessible because a "road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile".
