Great Gatsby +some Favourite Parts from The Great Gatsby 'You see I think everything's terrible anyhow,' she went on in a convinced way. 'Everybody thinks so-- the most advanced poeple. And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.' Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom's, and she laughed with thrilling scorn. 'Sophisticated-- God, I'm sophisticated!' The instant her voiced broke off, ceasing to compell my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. It made me uneasy, as thought the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to exact a contributary emotion from me. I waited, and sure enough, in a moment she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged." fucking AMAZING. Please please please read this book. He has Hawthornes style, minus the 10 pages describing the splinter on the door of the house on the point of the scaffold where Hester stood to be humiliated. (i'm going to Davis next weekend for sure...who wants to come w/me?!) |