tailieunhanh - The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

I n my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’ | The Great GATSBy By F. ScoTT Fitzgeraid Then wear the gold hat if that will move her If you can bounce high bounce for her too Till she cry Lover gold-hatted high-bouncing lover I must have you THOMAS PARKE D INVILLIERS 2 The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I ve been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticizing any one he told me just remember that all the people in this world haven t had the advantages that you ve had. He didn t say any more but we ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I m inclined to reserve all judgments a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought frequently I have feigned sleep preoccupation or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that as my fa- Free eBooks at Planet