‘Five years next November.' The automatic quality of Gatsby's answer set us all back at least another minute. I had them both on their feet with the desperate suggestion that they help me make tea in the kitchen when the demoniac Finn brought it in on a tray. Amid the welcome confusio...
At the end of chapter 5, we see a sadness in Gatsby's eyes. He spent nearly five years creating Daisy from memory, building her up in his mind so that she was nothing short of perfection. But now that she sits in front of him, holding his hand, he finds himself disappointed by the...
‘Five, with Becker.'His nostrils turned to me in an interested way.‘I understand you're looking for a business gonnegtion.' The juxtaposition of these two remarks was startling. Gatsby answered for me: ‘Oh, no,'he exclaimed,‘this isn't the man.' ‘No?'M r Wolfsheim seemed disapp...
WhenIcamehometoWestEggthatnightIwasafraidforamomentthatmyhousewasonfire.Twoo'clockandthewholecornerofthepeninsula(半岛)wasblazing(炽热的)withlightwhichfellunrealontheshrubbery(灌木丛)andmadethinelongating(伸长)glints(闪烁)upontheroadsidewires.TurningacornerIsawthatitwasGatsby'shouse,litfromtowertocellar.(...
所属专辑:英文名著--了不起的盖茨比 The Great Gatsby 声音简介 了不起的盖茨比 (弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德著中篇小说) 《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德创作的中篇小说,出版于1925年。 《了不起的盖茨比》主人公詹姆斯·卡兹本是北达科他州的一个贫穷的农家子弟,自幼梦想做个出人头地的大人物...
fire. Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula(半岛) was blazing(炽热的) with light which fell unreal on the shrubbery(灌木丛) and made thin elongating(伸长) glints(闪烁) upon the roadside wires. Turning a corner I saw that it was Gatsby's house, lit from tower to cellar....
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Worksheet forThe Great Gatsby, Chapters V-VI (7 points, 1 point per question) Name: ___Period: ___ Chapter V (Five) 1. What symbolic object does Gatsby accidentallyalmostknock off Nick’s mantle? (86) 2. What moral values or priorities does Daisy show when she cries into Gatsby’s ...
Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruitier in New York every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulp less halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if ...
Chapter 3THERE was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests div