June did this, June did that, she savedmoney and helped clean the house and cookedand Connie couldn't do a thing, her mindwas all filled with trashy daydreams.
Connie’s mother uses June to compare with Connie, I think her mother wants to take Connie’s pride and her beauty.
I went with them out to the veranda. On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat, one small sail crawled slowly toward the fresher sea. Gatsby’s eyes followed it momentarily; he raised his hand and pointed across the bay.
Daisy and Gatsby liked each other and they cared for each other.
He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favours and crushed flowers.
Why is he walking up and down? Is he too sad to walk?
Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.
She thinks that Gatsby is a bit charming.
Yes. So I started crying, and I kept crying, and I couldn't stop cry,ing no matter how hard I tried. They tell me I cried for two weeksstraight, but all I remember is that first day. I took a leave of absencefrom school, sold my house, and spent my money in a year, and nowI'm here, relying, as they say, on the kindness of strangers.''"I am kind because you are kind. Thank you for sharing your story.'
She has the thoughts that she wants to give up but has the world is holding her.
How did you start writing?
She the readers perspective to ask why she started writing.
She sat at a Mac and logged on.Her user name was "CrazyIndian," and her password was "StillCrazy."
Though this sentence is a little bit related to the book title, why her username is CrazyIndian? Is it indicates the scene, or is it a simple meaning?
His eyes were closed. He was silent so long I thought he slept.Then he said: "If you could have seen how close we were to Ithaca. Icould smell the fishing fires from the beach."
I am so surprised that he can smell the fishing fires from the beach.
I led him to the silver chair at thehearth and poured wine. His face was pleasant, and he leaned for-ward again, as if eager for whatever I might offer
Why Odysseus is pleasant in the eye, is he knowing something that the other man want to talk about?
. I hadscrubbed myself in the waves with sand till the blood cam
Though this passage is a little bit scary because the blood came through, but the narrator write it beautifully.
So she spoke. I drew the sharp sword from beside my thigh,and charged at Kirkē, as though with intent to kill her.She gave a loud scream, slipped under my charge, embracedmy knees, and, sobbing, addressed me with winged words, saying:‘Who are you? From where? What city? Who are your parents? 325I’m amazed that you drank my drug and were not bewitched!
I think this passage though is terrifying, it makes it like the scene is right in front of my eyes.
So they spoke,
Why is these words put there? Is it a meaning for something?
When I asked him about our own journey, wanted his helpin sending us on our way, he denied me nothing,
I think that the man didn’t answer because he was thinking of something else.
There is a ladder. The ladder is always there hanging innocently close to the side of the schooner. We know what it is for, we who have used it.
I was so suprised that the author uses ladder to represnts the fear of his alone.
whose drowned face sleeps with open eyes whose breasts still bear the stress
I love the author writes about the stress that the author can't support about it.
my mask is powerful
What is the mask is about? Is a phase or a another thing?
Tm going to be a musician," he said.
After years of her mother talking about their father’s brother accident. The boy didn’t stop his little brother from becoming a musician
d. Everyone is looking at something a child can'tsee. For a minute they've forgotten the children. Maybe a kidis lying on the rug, half asleep.
Why is the parents will forgot their child? Is the author is telling us something?
112stony, lifeless elegance of hotels and apartment buildings,toward the vivid, killing streets of our childhood. These streetshadn't changed, though housing projects jutted up out of themnow like rocks in the middle of a boiling sea. Most
I think this sentence is quite touching, because I have this feeling before.
my wife's word,imeparable-Beulah' s health went into a rapid decline. S
I don’t why the author use inseparable as a different font. Is it an important message for the readers? Or another meaning?
We dug in. We ace everything there was to eat on the cable.We ate like there was no tomorrow. We didn't talk. We ace.We scarl'ed. We grazed chat table. We were into serious eating.The blind man had right away located his foods, he knew justwhere everything was on his place. I watched'wich admirationas he used his knife and fork on the meat. He'd cue two piecesof. meat, fork the meat into his mouth, and then go all outfor the scalloped potatoes, the beans next, and then he'd tearoff a hunk of buttered bread and eat chat. He'd follow chis upwith a big drink of milk.
This paragraph is very interesting that the narrator says that the feast is so many but the ambience is empty.
On her last day in the office, the blindman asked if he could touch her face. She agreed to this. Shetold me he touched his fingers to every part of her face, hernose---even her neck!
I was surprised that the man has touched the woman’s face and even her neck. If I were the woman, I wouldn’t let the man touch it.
I toldja shut up, Ellie," Arnold Friend said,
The way the author uses "toldja" is weird, is the author emphasize Anrold's friend talking voice.
She stood
I am surprised that Connie is so brave and confident to refuse Anrold's friend
with charm braceletsjingling on their thin wrists; they would lean together to whisper and laugh secretly ifsomeone passed who amused or interested them. Connie had long dark blond hair thatdrew anyone's eye to it, and she wore part of it pulled up on her head and puffed out andthe rest of it she let fall down her back. She wore a pull-over jersey blouse that looked oneway when she was at home and another way when she was away from home
This sentenceis interesting because the author writes out the scene which Connie is free and happy with her friends.