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gatsby believed
in the green light
so we beat on,
boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
her voice
is full of money
they say we ought to keep out of trouble,
but they don’t give us a chance to live
he had always felt
outside of it all
he had committed murder twice
and had created a new world for himself
mr dalton hires negroes and gives money
to negro schools. but what’s he doing for them? nothing.
they were careless people,
tom and daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money
tom buchanan broke
her nose with his open hand
can’t repeat
the past? why, of course you can!
i hope she’ll
be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
she was not so much
a person as a symbol
he had killed a white woman…
and that made him feel a certain sense of satisfaction
i just work!
i ain’t had no happiness, no nothing.
he was filled with
a bitter pride. he had done something.
an oxford man!
like hell he is! he wears a pink suit.
mr. nobody
from nowhere
if we don’t look out
the white race will be utterly submerged
he was bitterly conscious
of the line that divided them
he gave millions to the negro schools
but bigger and his kind still lived in rat-infested homes
all of ‘em i know
ain’t got nothing and ain’t going nowhere
they own
the world
shiftless and unsuccessful
farm people
he knew that the moment he allowed himself
feel to its fullness how they lived, the same thing would happen to him that had happened to his mother
