【原音读英文】Gatsby 第七章1
1. The chapter opens on a blistering hot day in the days before air conditioning. How is the behavior of the characters linked to the weather?
每个人的行为因为天气的炎热而变得比较疯狂。这个似乎也为之后的高潮奠定了基础。
As he left the room again she got up and went over to Gatsby and pulled his face down kissing him on the mouth.
‘You know I love you,’ she murmured.
‘You forget there’s a lady present,’ said Jordan.
DAISY的行为也是够开放已经无所顾忌了。
2. What does Tom discover that unnerves him, and how did he discover it?
She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.
3. What had Gatsby understood about Daisy’s voice, that Nick had not?
‘She’s got an indiscreet voice,’ I remarked. ‘It’s full of——‘
I hesitated.
‘Her voice is full of money,’ he said suddenly.
That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it…. High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl….
Tom came out of the house wrapping a quart bottle in a towel, followed by Daisy and Jordan wearing small tight hats of metallic cloth and carrying light capes over their arms.
4. In what cars do the five of them travel into the city?
GATBY'S circus wagon
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