And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man asked helplessly the way. I had an old Dodge 7 and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom 8 to herself over the electric stove. He found the house, a weather-beaten bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm sent him to Washington, and I went out to the country alone. A young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a nearby town. The practical thing was to find rooms in the city. Father agreed to finance me for a year, and after all I came East, forever, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two. All my aunts and uncles talked it and finally said, “Why – ye-es,” with very serious, unsure faces. The Middle West now seemed like the edge of the universe – so I decided to go East and learn the bond business. I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless 6. I graduated from New Haven 5 in 1915 and a little later I participated in the Great War. I never saw this great-uncle, but everybody says I look like him because of his portrait that hangs in father’s office. The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we come from the Dukes of Buccleuch 4, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother. My family has been well-known, rich people in this Middle Western city for three generations.
No – Gatsby turned out all right at the end. He had an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person.
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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there wassomething gorgeous about him some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was an exception – Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn 3. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I didn’t want to look into the human heart anymore. I didn’t want most of the confidences – often I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that somebody wants to reveal an intimate secret.Īnd, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I decided that it has a limit. In college I was unjustly accused of being a politician 2, because I could keep the secret grieves of unknown men. As a result, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments 1, that’s why many curious natures have opened their secrets to me but also I became the victim of many experienced bores. He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always understood each other without words, and I knew that he meant much more than that. “Whenever you want to criticize any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind since then. Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her
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