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

He knew women early, and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them

His parents were unsuccessful farm people – his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.

I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life

not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion

Maybe there were moments even that afternoon when Daisy didn’t realize his dreams

the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness

They stood side by side examining it. I was going to ask to see the rubies when the phone rang

He’s dead now. He used to be my best friend years ago

an elderly man in yachting costume attracted me. It hung on the wall over his desk. «Who’s this?»

Daisy put her arm through his. I began to walk about the room, examining various indefinite objects in the half darkness