1) "Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
-What the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is trying to say is that although he was in the room with these people he wants to convince the reader that these people were complete strangers and so he didn't know them and were in effect, a complete mystery to him. He felt as if he were one of the people outside on the streets looking in with an eye of a stranger. He was disgusted and at the same time he was in awe of their lives, but wouldn't want to be in their shoes for anything. ( 105 words)
2) "I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited--they went there."
-What the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is saying in this quote is he was basically the only person that was invited to Gatsby's party and that everyone at Mr. Gatsby's house were just people that had heard from other people about the party going on and decided to drive all the way down there on the train to join them at the parties, in this case they were "uninvited" guests. Although Gatsby didn't much care that they weren't invited, the only requirement was that everyone had to have a great time while being there and garner Mr. Gatsby's approval. (106 words)
3) "- but no one swooned backward on Gatsby and no French bob touched Gatsby's shoulder and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby's head for one link."
- What the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is saying here is that everyone was scared to really touch Mr. Gatsby or be close to him because they believed he killed someone and if they were vulnerable around him he would kill you too. All they are there for is to be suspicious of Mr. Gatsby and to attend his party, while having a good time, without actually talking to him or buddy up with him. The author wants you to believe that they are freeloaders that travel to great lengths to Gatsby's mansion on the trains and by their cars so they can go party it up at Gatsby mansion. (109 words)
4) "I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others — young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life."
-What the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is saying in this is he is the narrator is so unbearably lonely at times and he can sense when other people are also lonely, either it be the young clerks late at night wasting the most important movements of there lifes and nights. He wants to convince you that he is all alone in the East and hardly knows anyone except his second cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom. Although he has them he barely knows them and they are practically strangers to him. ( 93 words)
5) "Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
-What the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, wants to convince you, the reader, is that the narrator believes everyone should suspect themselves of having at least one fundamental moral and that his, or Nick's, is being one of the few honest people in his group that he has ever known. He wants to convince the readers into believing that the narrator, Nick, is a very truthful and honest person out of all the people the narrator knows in his life. (89 words)
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