"He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far way, that might have been the end of a dock." (p. 21)
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"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life" (p. 36). "He was a blond, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome. When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes." (p.29) "Then I heard footsteps on a stairs, and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door. She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can. Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crépe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering." (p. 29-30) "It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. ... It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as much as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that at your best, you hoped to convey." (p 39) " He seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. ... His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor..." (p. 15). "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." (p.11) "And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be found on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on." (p. 11) |
PurposeMichelle Luu and Jennifer Nguyen simply touch upon some literary aspects and interpretations of the Francis Scott K. Fitzgerald's work, The Great Gatsby (1925). ArchivesCategories |