 | 1925 - Страниц: 194
...entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated...let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . . I shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to, for I felt suddenly as though I were talking... | |
 | Stein Haugom Olsen - 1978 - Страниц: 260
...entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated...together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.'1 So the moral behaviour of the Buchanans receives low marks from Nick. It has been pointed out... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1979 - Страниц: 265
...of their wealth and glamor, perhaps even because of it, Tom and Daisy were simply "careless people" who "smashed up things and creatures and then retreated...together, and let other people clean up the mess they made." Thus when George kills Gatsby and then himself, a strange circle of significance is finally... | |
 | Daniel Royot - 1993 - Страниц: 252
...and Daisy Buchanan and their associates in the novel, are finally characterized as « careless people [who] smashed up things and creatures and then retreated...money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made... » (184, ellipsis in text).... | |
 | Peter Collier - 1995 - Страниц: 548
..."They were careless people. . . . They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept...let other people clean up the mess they had made." But while the others had paid some deference to propriety, Elliott seemed at times to place himself... | |
 | Nellie Bly - 1996 - Страниц: 436
...CURTAIN 350 INTRODUCTION It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people. . . . They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated...let other people clean up the mess they had made. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby It all began with obsession. Joseph Patrick Kennedy wanted... | |
 | David L. Minter - 1994 - Страниц: 300
...polo match: It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated...let other people clean up the mess they had made." Tom epitomizes an aristocracy of such wealth and power that it can afford to be careless as well as... | |
 | Sarah M. Corse - 1997 - Страниц: 236
...in the wake of his dreams that . . . closed out my interest in ... men . . . careless people . . . [who] smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made (Fitzgerald [1925] 1953: 2, 180-1). True... | |
 | Leslie A. Fiedler - 1997 - Страниц: 524
...their mates, are rapists and aggressors. Of both Daisy and her husband Tom, Fitzgerald tells us, "they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money." In a real sense, not Daisy but Jay Gatz, the Great Gatsby, is the true descendant of Daisy Miller:... | |
 | John McCormick - 1971 - Страниц: 348
...justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated...let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . . 1 shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to, for I felt suddenly as though I were talking... | |
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. 
