The Great Gatsby - Chapter 1

一阕华丽的“爵士时代”的挽歌，在菲茨杰拉德笔下，竟然如诗如梦。

品质魅力——它有很强的故事性，同时又充满时代感。其批判性、文学性及艺术性，更是达到了一个前所未有的水平。

%% 在交代了作者本身容易探听到他人内心的性格特点后，故事开始娓娓道来。突出要点：作者的家世背景；为什么来到东海岸；租住的地方；不同地点之间的方位、特点，以及背后隐含的社会财富地位差异；自己跟本书另外两位角色的关系，以及这两位角色的家世、外貌、性格特征。 %%

it was a matter of chance…
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer…
a dozen volumes on …
in red and gold like new money from the mint
the “well-rounded man.” This isn’t just an epigram - life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay
The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard…
glittered along the water
the history of the summer really begins on…
enormously wealthy
drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together
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.
see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.
a supercilious manner. Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward…
politely and abruptly