‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
After the house, we were to see the grounds and the swimming-pool, and the hydroplane and the midsummer flowers – but outside Gatsby’s window it began to rain again, so we stood in a row looking at the corrugated surface of the Sound.
I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”