The Great Gatsby

My music list for The Great Gatsby would be
The Charleston, James P. Johnson for the parties at Gatsby's house when Nick would go and how Nick could hear the music all night long because he was his neighbor.
Minnie the Moocher, Irving Mills/Cab Calloway/Clarence Gaskill, This song just because of the whole group and the gossip and all the different stories going on around here. 
Doctor Jazz, Joe "King" Oliver, this song because of the Doctors eyes on the billboard and just because of the era for the whole book. The billboard watches everyone doing anything dancing, or even cheating behind your husbands back, anything. 

Stephen Crane Poetry

 Each small gleam was a voice  

                      -Stephen Crane

Each small gleam was a voice,
A lantern voice --
In little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.
A chorus of colours came over the water;
The wondrous leaf-shadow no longer wavered,
No pines crooned on the hills,
The blue night was elsewhere a silence,
When the chorus of colours came over the water,
Little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.

Small glowing pebbles
Thrown on the dark plane of evening
Sing good ballads of God
And eternity, with soul's rest.
Little priests, little holy fathers,
None can doubt the truth of your hymning,
When the marvellous chorus comes over the water,
Songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.

This poem to me is a churches choir, with their booming praise to the lord

but in a most soothing way. Their notes becomes the colors you see in the water, 

as if it is the dance of song with the water. 

Mark Twain Quotes

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.
Mark Twain

I took the frog to be a challenge or a project. Do it right away in the morning don't wait a while and see to it later. Also if you are stuck with two challenges then take the bigger one first and challenge yourself. You never know till you try it out.