Notes/ Witty points

也许是我的鉴赏水平还不够，也许是语言功底太差，也许是我不曾奋斗无法找到破灭时刻的感同身受，也许是名著多半真的都很无聊。
在这本小说的阅读过程中，阅读快感不多，最为显著的是Jay和Daisy重逢的时刻，还要感谢小李子和凯瑞穆里根的影像帮助。
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET— CHILDREN.
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
Thirty — the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning
What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?”
Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool, as if a divot from a green golf-links had come sailing in at the office window, but this morning it seemed harsh and dry.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made… .
在豆瓣“想读”里看到有人这样说：
"现在的北京有点像1920年代的长岛，到处是笙歌和婚外情，所以The Great Gatsby正好应景，想念长岛的时候，我就会放着Tim Robbins朗读的版本，看窗外的东三环，车来车往。小说的发生地Great Neck，现在的房价比东三环还便宜，婚姻幸福指数也更高。北京此刻的喧嚣，也终会归于平静，我想。"