lived at West Egg, the – well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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.’
They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house.
As for Tom, the fact that he ‘had some woman in New York’ was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book.
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.