Daisy Buchanan

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Don't Judge Me


"I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me..
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...  
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...
as my father
snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth."(The Great Gatsby, page 1)

4 comments:

  1. no title, but other then that you did a good job making his writing seem rythmic and calming

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  2. Long selection indeed, what did the speaker hint towards being afraid about?

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