Simburbia: Daisy appraises the goods
Academic Article TBA -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
While reading Shawn Thomson's essay linking the hit PC game, The Sims, to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, I noticed a connection he missed between the game and the novel... I imagine it would probably be best placed somewhere in paragraph 28.
In The Sims, when a player first moves a new family into a home, the very first thing they do is wander around the house and appraise new items, using vocal and visual cues to let the player know if they approve or disapprove of the objects placed in the house (their approval or disapproval depends upon a comparison of the object's value to the average value of all objects in the home put together). This is highly similar to the way that Gatsby leads Daisy around his home, watching her appraise the things in his home and then reevaluating their worth according to her appraisals.