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. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. 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. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again." "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. scott (francis scott), 1896-1940,įiction, romance, historical, 20th century,Īmerican fiction (collections), 20th century,Īmerican literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Young adult fiction, social themes, class differences,įitzgerald, f. Young adult fiction, comics & graphic novels, classic adaptation, American fiction (fictional works by one author),
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