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American dream
A reminder of that ineluctable gravity that pulls all things back to earth”
“Nick is a spectator in search of a performer. He sees Gatsby in gestural terms; If personality is an
unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some
heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.”
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 — to-morrow 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.
When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire”
‘He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that’ –
“But it was all going by too fast now for his blurred
eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest
and the best, forever.”
He had 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 as far as you
wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.
Moral decay
“Clearly, there is in Nick’s narrative discourse a hunger for something that is Real in a more than
contingent, material, ’accidental’ way”
the whisperings and the champagne and the stars”
"they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money".
Illusion vs reality
romantic apartments concealed overhead”, but actually the entire garage is “unprosperous and bare”.
a quality of eternal reassurance”
more correct as the fraternal hilarity increased”.
’James Gatz – that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen
and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career – when he saw Dan Cody’s
yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior.’
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American dream
A reminder of that ineluctable gravity that pulls all things back to earth”
“Nick is a spectator in search of a performer. He sees Gatsby in gestural terms; If personality is an
unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some
heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.”
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 — to-morrow 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.
When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire”
‘He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that’ –
“But it was all going by too fast now for his blurred
eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest
and the best, forever.”
He had 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 as far as you
wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.
Moral decay
“Clearly, there is in Nick’s narrative discourse a hunger for something that is Real in a more than
contingent, material, ’accidental’ way”
the whisperings and the champagne and the stars”
"they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money".
Illusion vs reality
romantic apartments concealed overhead”, but actually the entire garage is “unprosperous and bare”.
a quality of eternal reassurance”
more correct as the fraternal hilarity increased”.
’James Gatz – that was really, or at least legally, his name. He had changed it at the age of seventeen
and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career – when he saw Dan Cody’s
yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior.’
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