TheGreatGatsby了不起的盖茨比-振宇英语 - (EPUB全文下载)

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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
了不起的盖茨比
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too.
Till she cry
“Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!”

——
Thomas Parke D’invilliers
Chapter 1
In my younger and more vulnerable
years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
“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.”
He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved
way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to
reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up
many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran
bores
. The abnormal mind is quick to detect
and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of
being a politician, because I was privy to
the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought
—frequently I have feigned
sleep, preoccupation
, or a hostile levity
when I realized by some unmistakable
sign that an intimate revelation was quivering
on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic
and marred by obvious suppressions
. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite
hope. 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.
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct
may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes
, but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on. When 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 for ever; I wanted no more riotous excursions
with privileged
glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful ges ............

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