然而,冰冷的現實容不下飄渺的夢,到頭來,蓋茨比心中的女神只不過是凡塵俗世的物質女郎。當壹切真相大白,蓋茨比的悲劇人生亦如煙花般,璀璨只是壹瞬,幻滅才是永恒。
壹闋華麗的“爵士時代”的.挽歌,在菲茨傑拉德筆下,如詩如夢,在美國當代文學史上留下了墨色濃重的印痕。
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I was within and without.
我既是旁觀者清亦是當局者迷。
All the bright, precious things fade so fast. And they don’t come back.
所有的光鮮靚麗都敵不過時間,並且壹去不復返。
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
我們奮力前行,小舟逆水而上,不斷地被浪潮推回到過去。
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," hetold me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
“每逢妳想要批評任何人的時候”,他對我說,“妳就記住,這個世界上所有的人,並不是個個都有過妳擁有的那些優越條件。”
Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes,but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.
人們的品行有的好像建築在堅硬的巖石上,有的好像建築在泥沼裏,不過超過壹定的限度,我就不在乎它建在什麽之上了。