This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament.”
Category: The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan.
She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
What I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never again romp like the mind of God.