2019-12-05 Chapter 3-The Great G

Ultimately we meet THE GREAT GATSBY on his party in this chapter. With fully preparation, inadvertently he showed up by introducing himself "I'm Gatsby" , with that classic smile.

He smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. 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 faced - or seemed to face - the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you 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. Precisely at that point it vanished - and I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd. Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.  

It's the best description of smile I've ever read about, even more beautiful than Mona Lisa's. The instant you encountered it, it's like meeting a best friend, you'll know each other without even saying out a word.  The instant the sun shines on you, a beam of sunshine brings the a of warmth. This gives you the feeling that Gatsby is the unique one in this world. 

Mostly this chapter tells about the party with lots of detail but it also brings some interesting parts that help develop the whole story. Beside the smile, I like the depiction of a man walking out of a wreck hitting into the ditch alongside road of Gatsby's house. 

"Did you run into the wall?"

"Don't ask me", said Owl Eyes, washing his hands of the whole matter. "I know very little about driving - next to nothing. It happened, and that's all I know."

洗手不干;不再管;和…断绝关系；If you wash your hands of someone or something, you refuse to be involved with them any more or to take responsibility for them.

The phrase used here perfectly depicted the character of this man and gave readers the impression about who and what kind of person this guy was and also added funny factors in the story.