1%
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
9%
'All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
15% <早期读Fitzgerald时爱的一句比喻>
We drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner.
16%
Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.
19%
I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight.
Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
20%
Taking out my handkerchief I wiped from his cheek the remains of the spot of dried lather that had worried me all the afternoon.
21% <虚空的派对，最后一句很精彩，当场被遗忘的介绍>
By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived--no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums... introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.
26% <Gatsy的出场迷人微笑>
He smiled understandingly--much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
31% <对Jordan的描写，立马让我想到了一个旧知，Jordan是Fitzgerald本人爱情的投射>
Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage.
32% <Nick对Jordan>
... and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires...
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
42%
The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties...
43% <读至此处，我以为Gatsby了不起的在于他保质的爱>
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms.
60%
For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
64% <Tom发现Daisy和Gatsby两人之后的反应>
She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded. His mouth opened a little and he looked at Gatsby and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognized her as some one he knew a long time ago.
65% <对Daisy浅薄本性的直击>
"Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money--that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it. . . .
66%
The immediate contingency overtook him, pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.
67% <Wilson悲剧和Tom>
I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before--
69%
The day after he left Daddy died." After a moment she added as if she might have sounded irreverent, "There wasn't any connection."
71% <终于在中央公园南的酒店屋里两人相见成仇>
"Your wife doesn't love you," said Gatsby. "She's never loved you. She loves me." "You must be crazy!" exclaimed Tom automatically. Gatsby sprang to his feet, vivid with excitement. "She never loved you, do you hear?" he cried. "She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!"
72%
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
74%
"No . . . I just remembered that today's my birthday."
I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.
...Human sympathy has its limits and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.
... So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
78% <在那一天之后发生的事，让我想到我本科时也会有如此感受>
I'd be damned if I'd go in; I'd had enough of all of them for one day and suddenly that included Jordan too.
79% <Nick对Gatsby的态度终于急转直下>
I disliked him so much by this time that I didn't find it necessary to tell him he was wrong.
83% <Gatsby对Daisy说曾经爱过Tom，爱过那么一次的反应>
What could you make of that, except to suspect some intensity in his conception of the affair that couldn't be measured?
84%
We shook hands and I started away. Just before I reached the hedge I remembered something and turned around.
"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
I've always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end.
89% <Gatsby被Wilson射死时Fitzgerald最精彩的一句评论>
... the holocaust was complete
90% <充满讽刺的葬礼，这是Nick和Gatsby被捆在了一起，对抗周遭>
When the butler brought back Wolfshiem's answer I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all.
97%
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
98% <文章结句>
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning---- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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