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life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

Pero hubo un cambio en Gatsby que era simplemente incomprensible. Literalmente resplandecía; sin necesidad de palabra o gesto alguno de emoción, un nuevo bienestar irradiaba de él y llenaba la pequeña habitación.

They were a party of three on horseback

we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….

Solo son cenizas flotando

Cada persona se cree dueña de al menos una de las virtudes cardinales, y ésta era la mía: soy una de las pocas personas honestas que conozco.

Ni un solo instante apartó la mirada de Daisy; creo que revalorizaba todo cuanto había en su casa, de acuerdo con la medida de aprobación que leía en sus adorables pupilas. A veces miraba sus poseciones asombrado, como si en la real y sorprendente presencia de Daisy, nada fuera ya real.

His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. Through

Pero soy lento en el pensar, estoy lleno de normas interiores que actuan como frenos sobre mis deseos

-Detesto a la gente descuidada. Por eso me gustas tú.Sus ojos grises entrecerrados debido a la luz miraban hacia el frente, pero de manera deliberada ella había cambiado nuestras relaciones, y por un momento pensé que la amaba.

Debio contemplar un cielo desconocido entre amedrentadoras horas, y debio estremecerse al darse cuenta de lo grotesca que es un rosa,Y de cuan cruda era la luz del sol sobre la hierba recien nacida

Teutonic migration

Ni un solo instante apartó la mirada de Daisy; creo que revalorizaba todo cuanto había en su casa, de acuerdo con la medida de aprobación que leía en sus adorables pupilas. A veces miraba sus posesiones asombrado, como si en la real y sorprendente presencia de Daisy, nada fuera ya real.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——

we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning——

IN MY YOUNGER and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. 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.

a rowdy little girl who gave way upon the slightest provocation to uncontrollable laughter

I wouldn’t ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can’t repeat the past.''Can’t repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!

Aprendamos a mostrar a amizade que temos por um homem enquanto ele é vivo e não depois de ele estar morto!

A dim background started to take shape behind him, but at her next remark it faded away.

riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch. He had changed since his New Haven years. Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body—he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable

quality

... and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

Los norteamericanos a pesar de ser propicios e incluso de querer ser siervos, siempre se negaron a ser vistos como campesinos.

contempt in it, even toward people he liked—and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts. ‘Now, don’t think my opinion on these matters is final,’ he seemed to say, ‘just because I’m stronger and more of a man than you are.’ We were in the

wistfulness

You wouldn’t have to do any business with Wolfsheim. Evidently he thought that I was shying away from the gonnegtion mentioned at lunch, but I assured him he was wrong.

happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than

Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace.

Colonial

That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man".

-Si no fuera por la niebla, veríamos tu casa, al otro lado de la bahía... -dijo Gatsby-. Siempre tienen una luz verde encendida al final del muelle...Impulsivamente, Daisy pasó su brazo por debajo del de Gatsby, pero el parecía absorto en lo que acababa de decir. Acaso se le había ocurrido que el colosal significado de aquella luz desaparecía para siempre. Comparado con la enorme distancia que lo había separado de Daisy, la luz le había parecido muy cercana a ella, casi rozándola; tan cerca como puede estarlo una estrella de la luna.

Daisy ha una voce indiscreta," osservai."È piena di..." esitai."Ha una voce piena di soldi," disse lui all'improvviso.Era così. Prima non me n'ero mai reso conto. Era piena di soldi: era quello l'inesauribile fascino che saliva e scendeva dentro, il tintinnio, il canto dei cembali... Lassù in un palazzo bianco la figlia del re, la ragazza d'oro...

bum

Binecuvântați sunt morții peste care cade ploaia

I’ll tell you God’s truth. His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by.

We heard it from three people, so it must be true.

La verdad es que Jay Gatsby, de West Egg, Long Island, nació de su platónica concepción de sí mismo.

She’s said to be very beautiful by people who ought to know.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.

For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened—then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk. The

recognizable look

It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

I suppose he’d had the name ready for a long time, even then.

Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody—told it to me because Jay Gatsby had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out.

I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive.

Era una de aquellas sonrisas excepcionales que poseían la cualidad de ser eternamente reconfortantes por sí mismas, de las que uno se encuentra sólo cuatro o cinco veces en la vida.

Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle, but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.

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….