1、When I came back from the East last autumn I felt I wanted the whole world to be in moral uniform all living a highly moral life for ever. I wanted no more wildness no more secrets of the human heart. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
2、So we beat onboats against the current.borne back ceaselessly into the past. ----F. Scott Fitzgerald
3、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
4、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
5、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
6、&＃039;Look!&＃039; said Daisy suddenly. Her eyes were on her little finger. We all looked. It was black and blue.&＃039;You did it Tom&＃039; she said accusingly. &＃039;I know you didn&＃039;t mean to but you did do it. That&＃039;s what I get for marrying a great big powerful animal of a man."I hate that word animal&＃039; said Tom crossly &＃039;even as a joke.&＃039; ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
7、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
8、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
9、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
10、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
11、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
12、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
13、Gatsby believed in the green light the future that year by year moves further away from us. It escaped us then but that doesn&＃039;t matter – tomorrow we will run faster stretch out our arms further … And one fine morning …So we beat on boats against the current carried back ceaselessly into the past. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
14、Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiarly threatening quality – it stands out in my memory from Gatsby&＃039;s other parties that summer. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
15、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
16、&＃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
17、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
18、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
19、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
20、One autumn night five years before they had been walking down the street. The ground was white with moonlight and they stopped and turned toward each other. It was a cool night but with that mysterious excitement in it which comes as the seasons change. ----F· Scott Fitzgerald
21、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
22、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
23、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
24、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
25、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
26、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
27、&＃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
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、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
30、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
