The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition
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- linda munseyhas quoted5 days ago
Now, don’t think my opinion on these matters is final,” he seemed to say, “just because I’m stronger and more of a man than you are.” We were in the same senior society, and while we were never intimate I always had the impression that he approved of me and wanted me to like him with some harsh, defiant wistfulness of his own.tom doesnt seem like much of a friend cuz he kinda talks down to nick.
- linda munseyhas quoted5 days agoHe had changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body — 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. It was a body capable of enormous leverage — a cruel body.
how he nick ( the narrator ) describes his friend from college " tom" has changed.
- linda munseyhas quoted5 days agoI had no sight into Daisy’s heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.
Thinks that tom could never settle down into a calm life. Talks about tom
- linda munseyhas quoted5 days agoHis family were enormously wealthy — even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach — but now he’d left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance, he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest. it was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.
Tom's family is super rich and tom does things that suprise nick that tom has enough money to spend to with as he pleases. talks about tom
- linda munseyhas quoted5 days agoThis responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament.”— it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again
puts gatsby on a pedastal cuz he sees a quality in him that no one else has. he is glazing him. Talks about gatsby
- linda munseyhas quoted5 days agoGatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.
Gatsby is a symbol of what the narrator has a comtempt or dislike towards the way the rich people do things. talks about gatsby
- linda munseyhas quoted5 days agoWhen 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.
It seems like he has gotten tired of the curosities of people or just tired of always being the therapist friend. Being the person people always go to? Talks about himself
- linda munseyhas quoted5 days agoAnd, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.
Realized that resevering his judgements to himself can not go on forever. Talks about himself
- linda munseyhas quoted5 days agoI 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.
he knows not everyone is born equal Talks about himself
- linda munseyhas quoted5 days agoReserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.
A hope to continue to learn about more curosities. Talks about himself
