GENERAL

• Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window
• The consoling proximity of millionaires
• men and girls came and went like moths
• the rules of behaviour associated with an amusement park
• the sea of changing faces... under the constantly changing light
• -Americans, while willing, even eager, to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry
• -Your place looks like the World’s Fair
• -“see how the whole front of it [Gatsby’s house] catches the light”
• -It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock.
• -A universe of ineffable gaudiness

  -The rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing

  -A pioneer debauchee
• -A desolation of fruit rinds and discarded favours and crushed flowers
• -There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture (Tom and Daisy)

  -My presence marred the sacredness of the vigil
• I don’t know which one of us hung up with a sharp click, but I know I didn’t care.
• Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Western life
• They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money.

  On the white steps an obsence word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight and I erased it.

  A fresh green breast of the new world
• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.