Tom Complaining about Gatsby sleeping with Daisy, then talking about the ludicracy of gatsby and daisy being together “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people – with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. Nick’s thoughts on the rigging of the world series, and realizing that wolfsheim is behind it Lucille being her dress repaired for a lot of money But what do you want? What do you expect?” (3.49-50) What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too – didn’t cut the pages.
Owl Eyes looking at how intricately Gatsby faked the books
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together. “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.” (1.1-3)Ĭritical, cynical description of rich people
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