英文名著--The Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Fitzgerald.pdfVIP

The Great Gatsby F. 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! THO AS PARKE DINVILLIERS. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 1 In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some adv ce that Ive been turn ng over n my mnd ever s nce. Whenever you feel lke cr t c zng any one, he told me, just remember that all the people n th s world havent had the advantages that youve had. He d dnt say any more, but weve always been unusually commun cat ve n a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, Im nclned to reserve all judgments, a hab t that has opened up many cur ous natures to me and also made me the v ct m of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mnd s qu ck to detect and attach tself to th s qualty when t appears n a normal person, and so t came about that n college I was unjustly accused of be ng a polt c an, because I was pr vy to the secret gr efs of w ld, unknown men. Most of the confdences were unsought--frequently I have fe gned sleep, preoccupat on, or a host le lev ty when I realzed by some unm stakable s gn that an nt mate revelat on was qu ver ng on the hor zon; for the nt mate revelat ons of young men, or at least the terms n wh ch they express them, are usually plag ar st c and marred by obv ous suppress ons. Reservng judgments s a matter of nfn te hope. I am st ll a lttle afra d of m ss ng someth ng f I forget that, as my father snobb shly suggested, and I snobb shly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decenc