The Great Gatsby 1⃣️

Chapter 1

1.“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

2.Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.

3.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.

4.I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

5.Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

6.Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.They were here, and they accepted Tom and me, making only a polite pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained.

7.…pointlessly, and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one, and yet to avoid all eyes.

8.To a certain temperament the situation might have seemed intriguing…

9.Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them,…

10.her eyes moved gradually out into the velvet dusk.

11.“Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated!”世故

12.The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.

13.“To be continued,” she said, tossing the magazine on the table, “in our very next issue.”

14.You can’t stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage.

15.Their interest rather touched me and made them less remotely rich — nevertheless, I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away.It seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was to rush out of the house, child in arms — but apparently there were no such intentions in her head.

16.…it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.

17.I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.