Цитаты из книги «The Great Gatsby. Адаптированная книга для чтения на английском языке. Уровень B1»

He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream was so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the future that year by year recedes before us

shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to, for I felt suddenly as though I was talking to a chil

I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very confused. 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.

He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn’t told him who owned the car. His hand was on a revolver in his pocket every minute he was in the house

what did you say to Wilson that afternoon

One afternoon late in October I saw Tom Buchanan.

I doubted that but I pretended to be surprised. For just a minute I wondered if I wasn’t making a mistake, then I thought it all over again quickly and got up to say good-by. We shook hands. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

she was engaged to another man

I saw Jordan Baker and talked about what had happened to us together,