VIII. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Ware: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1993), pp.93-103
A.   Representative Passages
    1.      “He stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air,to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him.But it was all going by too fast now for his blurred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it,the freshest and the best,forever.”(97)
    2.      “He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.A new world,material without being real,where poor ghosts,breathing dreams like air,drifted like that ashen,fantastic figure gliding towards him through the amorphous trees.”(103)
B.  Setting
    1.    Time: the day after the car accident
    2.    Location: Gatsby’s house
C.  Main Characters
    1.    Mr Gatsby
          a.  cloth:“pink rag of a suit”(98)
          b.  expression:“heavy with dejection or sleep”(93) “look at me challengingly”(96) “radiant and understanding smile”(98)
          c.  identity(past):“a penniless young man without past.”(94)
    2.    Daisy:
          a.  cloth:“with the beads and chiffon of an evening dress tangled among dying orchids on the floor.”(96)
          b.  expression: “quality of nervous”(96)
          c.  daily life:“keep half dozen dates a day with half a dozen men”(96)
sort of的意思          d.  identity:“nice girl”(94)
    3.    George Wilson: “half -knowing,half-bewildered look”(100) “shook his head,his eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the ghost of a superior.”(101) “acting sort of crazy”(102)
D.  Episodes
    1.  Gatsby was worried about Daisy.He told me the happy day with Daisy and explained why they were not together now.
    2.  Gatsby was very disappointed with the reality.He hoped Daisy would call him but no telephone message arrived. “He had lost the old warm world,paid a high price for living too long with a single dream”(103)
    3.  Wilson wanted to find the murder but he mistook Gatsby for murder and killed him in the swimming pool.
    4.  Wilson committed suicide.
E.  Imagery
    1.  Daisy: “gleaming like sliver”(95)
    2.  Beale Street Blues: “hopeless comment of the Beale Street Blues while a hundred pairs of golden and sliver slippers shuffled the shining dust.”(96)
    3.  Pink: “pink rag of a suit”(98)
    4.  Daisy’s house:“it was as casual a thing to her as his tent out at camp was to him.”(94)
   

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