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"The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are upon him" -
Narrator
“I hope she’ll be a fool. That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
'Can't repeat the past?
Why of course you can!'
'Your wife
doesn't love you.
She's
never loved you.
She
loves me.'
'...if
we don't look out, the white race will be- will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved.'
So we
beat on
,
boats
against the
current
, borne back
ceaselessly
into the
past
"Gatsby believed in the
green light
, the
orgastic
future that year by year
recedes
before us."
“They're a
rotten crowd...You're worth
the whole
damn bunch put together.”
“I like
large parties.
They’re so
intimate.
At small parties there isn’t any
privacy.”
“I was
within
and
without
,
simultaneously enchanted
and
repelled
by the
inexhaustible variety
of
life.”
"
They're a rotten crowd...You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
"
"
They're a rotten crowd...You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
"
"I lived at
West Egg
,
the—well
,
the less fashionable of the two
“People
disappeared
,
reappeared
, made
plans
to go somewhere, and then
lost
each other,
searched
for each other,
found
each other a few
feet
away.”
“I was
thirty.
Before me stretched the
portentous
,
menacing road
of a new
decade.”
Americans
, while occasionally willing to be
serfs
, have always been obstinate about being
peasantry.
“His
dream
must have seemed so
close
that he could hardly
fail
to
grasp
it.”