And, after boasting this way of my toleranbsp;I e to the admission that it has a limit. dubsp;may be founded on the hard robsp;or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don''t care what it''s founded on. When I came babsp;from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimps into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my rea—Gatsby who reprented everything for whibsp;I have an ued s. If personality is an unbroken ries of successful gestures, then there was something geous about him, some heightened nsitivity to the promis of life, as if he were related to one of tho intricate maes that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability whibsp;is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantibsp;readiness subsp;as I have never found in any other person and whibsp;it is not likely I shall ever find again. No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily clod out my i in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
And, after boasting this way of my toleranbsp;I e to the admission that it has a limit. dubsp;may be founded on the hard robsp;or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don''t care what it''s founded on. When I came babsp;from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimps into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my rea—Gatsby who reprented everything for whibsp;I have an ued s. If personality is an unbroken ries of successful gestures, then there was something geous about him, some heightened nsitivity to the promis of life, as if he were related to one of tho intricate maes that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability whibsp;is dignified under the name of the "creative temperament"—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantibsp;readiness subsp;as I have never found in any other person and whibsp;it is not likely I shall ever find again. No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily clod out my i in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
My family have been promi, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three geions. The Carraways are something of a and we have a tradition that we''re desded from the Dukes of Buccleubsp;but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather''s brother who came here in fifty-one, nt a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on today.