1、He stayed there a week revisiting the places where he and Daisy had been together. He left the town feeling that if he had searched harder he could have found her. On the train out of town he stretched his arms out of the window trying to catch a handful of the air that she had breathed. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
2、There was something truly wonderful about him a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life – he was like one of those complicated machines that show the presence of an earthquake ten thousand miles away. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
3、Her frightened eyes told that whatever intentions whatever determination she had had were gone forever. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
4、By seven o&＃039;clock every Saturday night the orchestra has arrived. The last swimmers have come in from the beach and are dressing upstairs; there are at least five rows of cars from New York parked in front of the house and already the halls and rooms are full of colorful dresses and the latest strangest haircuts. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
5、And as I lay there thinking about the old unknown world I thought of Gatsby&＃039;s wonder when he first saw the green light at the end of Daisy&＃039;s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close to him. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
6、&＃039;Why didn&＃039;t he ask you to arrange a meeting?&＃039;&＃039;He wants her to see his house and you live right next door.&＃039;It was dark now and I put my arm round Jordan&＃039;s golden shoulder and drew her toward me. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
7、Already it was deep summer and when I reached my house I put the car away and sat for a while out in my small garden. It was a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and insects flying above my head. A cat moved across the grass in the moonlight and turning my head to watch it I saw that I was not alone. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
8、Daisy disappeared into her rich house into her rich full life leaving Gatsby – nothing. He felt married to her that was all
When they met again two days later it was Gatsby who was unsure of himself who would do anything to see her again. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
9、IN THE MEANTIME IN BETWEEN TIME—As I went over to say goodbye I saw the dazed look on Gatsby&＃039;s face again. Was he doubting the quality of his happiness? Almost five years! ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
10、IN THE MORNING IN THE EVENING AIN&＃039;T WE GOT FUN—
Outside the wind was loud. All the lights were going on in West Egg now; the electric trains were carrying men home from New York and there was excitement in the air. ONE THING&＃039;S SURE AND NOTHING&＃039;S SURER THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET-CHILDREN. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
11、After his embarrassment and then his unreasoning joy he now felt only wonder that she was there.Pulling himself together he opened two huge cupboards to show us his well-cut suits expensive shirts and silk ties.&＃039;I&＃039;ve got a man in England who buys me clothes. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
12、Daisy put her arm through his but Gatsby seemed lost in thought. Possibly he had realized that the enormous importance of that light had now gone for ever. To him it had seemed very near to her almost touching her as close as a star to the moon. Now it was just a green light on a dock again.&＃039;Look!&＃039; cried Daisy. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
13、With tiny movements that were only the shadows of waves the mattress floated irregularly down the pool carrying its load. A small breath of wind was enough to disturb its accidental journey and the touch of some leaves on the surface made it turn slowly leaving a thin red circle in the water. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
14、We shook hands and I started to walk away. A little way down the path I remembered something and turned around.
&＃039;They&＃039;re a rotten crowd&＃039; I shouted across the lawn. &＃039;You&＃039;re worth the whole damned lot of them.&＃039;
I&＃039;ve always been glad I said that. It was the only nice thing I ever said to him. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
15、While I watched him his hand took hold of hers and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a sudden rush of feeling. I think that feverish exciting voice of hers held him most because it couldn&＃039;t be dreamed – that voice was a deathless song. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
16、There was nothing I could say except the one thing that was impossible to say – that it wasn&＃039;t true.
I couldn&＃039;t forgive him or like him but I saw that he thought he had good reasons for what he had done. It was all very careless and confused. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
17、You see I think everything&＃039;s terrible anyway. Everybody thinks so. And I know. I&＃039;ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. Nothing&＃039;s new to me!&＃039; She laughed scornfully.The moment her voice stopped her power over me died away. I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said and it made me uneasy. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
18、Gatsby his hands still in his pockets was standing in front of the fireplace. The back of his head was touching a clock on a shelf but he was trying to look perfectly comfortable and even a little bored. His miserable eyes stared down at Daisy who was sitting frightened but beautiful on the edge of a stiff chair. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
19、I went in – after making every possible noise in the kitchen – but I don&＃039;t believe they heard a sound. They were sitting at either end of the sofa and every sign of embarrassment was gone. Daisy had been crying and was drying her tears. But there was a surprising change in Gatsby. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
20、When I came home to West Egg that night I was afraid for a moment that my house was on fire. Two o&＃039;clock in the morning and the whole of the coastline seemed to be in flames. Turning a corner I saw that it was Gatsby&＃039;s house lit from tower to cellar.At first I thought it was another party. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
21、For a moment I thought I loved her. But I said nothing. I knew that first I had to get myself out of that connection back home. For me it had never been more than friendship but there was a sort of understanding between us and that had to be gently broken off before I was free. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
22、He smiled understandingly. It was one of those smiles that you see only four or five times in your life. It showed you that he understood you believed in you and had the best possible opinion of you. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
23、If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world and paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up through frightening leaves at a new world full of poor ghosts breathing dreams … like that ashen fantastic figure coming slowly toward him through the trees. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
24、She looked away from me and up to the top of the steps. We could hear Three o&＃039;clock in the Morning a neat sad little dance song coming from the open door. What was it in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the soft hours of darkness? ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
25、Daisy asked me questions in her low exciting voice. Her face was sad and lovely with bright eyes and a bright beautiful mouth but it was her voice that men who loved her found difficult to forget. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
26、So we beat onboats against the current.borne back ceaselessly into the past. ----F. Scott Fitzgerald
27、They were gone without a word. After a moment or two we left too. Jordan and I got into the coupé with Tom and we started for Long Island. Tom was very pleased with himself talking and laughing all the way but Jordan and I were not listening. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
28、I began to like New York especially the adventurous feel of it at night. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and choose romantic women from the crowd – I used to imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter their lives and no one would ever know. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
29、A moment later she rushed out into the darkness waving her hands and shouting. Before he could move it was all over. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
30、But with every word of his she was drawing further and further into herself so he stopped that and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away trying unhappily to reach that lost voice across the room. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
