1、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 there was something missing in every one of us so that we were never able to get used to Eastern life. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
2、As Gatsby closed the door of the library I was almost sure I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter.Upstairs we saw luxuriously furnished bedrooms with fresh flowers on the tables dressing rooms and bathrooms. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
3、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
4、From the car window Daisy&＃039;s face looked out at me from under a three-cornered hat with a delighted smile.&＃039;Is this absolutely where you live my dearest one?&＃039;Her lovely voice made the gray day feel brighter. I took her hand to help her from the car.&＃039;Are you in love with me?&＃039; she said low in my ear. &＃039; ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
5、The sun had risen now on Long Island and we went round the house opening the rest of the downstairs windows. Ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow pleasant movement in the air promising a cool lovely day. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
6、We drove over the great bridge with the sunlight on the moving cars and the city rising up across the river. New York seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.&＃039; ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
7、There was dancing now on the lawn the orchestra was playing jazz and champagne was being served in glasses bigger than finger bowls. The moon had risen higher and floating in the ocean was a silver triangle trembling a little in the night air. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
8、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
9、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
10、So we beat onboats against the current.borne back ceaselessly into the past. ----F. Scott Fitzgerald
11、&＃039;Here my dear.&＃039; She felt drunkenly around on the floor and picked up the necklace. &＃039;Give it back to whoever it belongs to. And tell them all Daisy&＃039;s changed her mind!&＃039;She began to cry – she cried and cried. I rushed out and found her mother&＃039;s servant girl. We locked the door and got Daisy into a cold bath. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
12、There was music from my neighbor&＃039;s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like night-flying insects among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
13、And so with the sunshine and the leaves bursting out on the trees I had that recognizable feeling that life was beginning over again with the summer. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
14、He talked a lot about the past and I understood that he wanted to rediscover something some idea of himself perhaps that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and meaningless since then but if he could only return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
15、The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart and all they can do is stare blankly. ----F. Scott Fitzgerald
16、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
17、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
18、Her frightened eyes told that whatever intentions whatever determination she had had were gone forever. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
19、He did extraordinarily well in the war and afterwards was sent to Oxford although he tried very hard to get sent home. Daisy&＃039;s letters to him were nervous and desperate; she wanted to feel his presence beside her and to be told she was doing the right thing. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
20、The lights grow brighter as the earth moves away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music. The voices are louder and higher and laughter is easier minute by minute. Suddenly a girl dances out alone on to the lawn and the party has begun. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
21、I tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment but he was already too far away and I could only remember without anger that Daisy hadn&＃039;t sent a message or a flower.
When it was over we walked quickly through the rain to the cars. Owl-eyes spoke to me by the gate.
&＃039;I couldn&＃039;t get to the house&＃039; he remarked. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
22、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
23、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
24、Suddenly Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.&＃039;They&＃039;re such beautiful shirts&＃039; she sobbed. &＃039;It makes me sad because I&＃039;ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.&＃039;Outside Gatsby&＃039;s window it began to rain again and we stood in a row looking out at the sea beyond the lawn.&＃039; ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
25、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
26、It occurred to me that there was no difference between men in intelligence or race so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. ----F. Scott Fitzgerald
27、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
28、Once I had reached my front door I looked back across the lawn. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors of Gatsby&＃039;s mansion. Standing on the porch was the lonely figure of the host his hand raised in a formal goodbye. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
29、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
30、I walked out the back way – just as Gatsby had done half an hour earlier – and waited under a huge black tree in the middle of my lawn. Once more it was pouring and there was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby&＃039;s enormous mansion.After half an hour the sun shone again. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
