the great gatsby chapter 1 annotations

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To a certain temperament the situation might have seemed intriguing — my own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police.The horses, needless to say, were not mentioned again.trying to look pleasantly interested and a little deafIn its deep gloom we sat down side by side on a wicker settee.Daisy took her face in her hands as if feeling its lovely shape, and her eyes moved gradually out into the velvet dusk.

Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizonfor the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on.When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book,was exempt from my reaction — Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.

“I thought everybody knew.”“She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner time. The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on to-day.I never saw this great-uncle, but I’m supposed to look like himI graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my fatherI enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restlessInstead of being the warm centre of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe — so I decided to go East and learn the bond business.All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep school for me, and finally said, “Why — ye — es,” with very grave, hesitant facesand after various delays I came East, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.The practical thing was to find rooms in the city, but it was a warm season, and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly treesa young man at the office suggested that we take a house togetherbut at the last minute the firm ordered him to WashingtonI had a dog — at least I had him for a few days until he ran away — and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.I told him. been in#ite! a competitive golfer who yawns as though bored by her surroundings.After an awkward dinner, the party breaks up. He characterizes himself as both highly moral and highly tolerant. And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago.Her husband, among various physical accomplishments,a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.His family were enormously wealthy--even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproachbut now he'd left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath awayIt was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfullyThis was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn't believe it--I had no sight into Daisy's heart but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at allTheir house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay.The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens — finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm windy afternoon,and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.He had changed since his New Haven years. She snapped them out with her fingers. The newest is much more better! What was that word we ——”“Well, these books are all scientific,” insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently.“This fellow has worked out the whole thing. “— And we’ve produced all the things that go to make civilization — oh, science and art, and all that.

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