【原音读英文】Gatsby 第八章下

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What two hints brought Wilson to the conclusion that Myrtle was having an affair?
1. a small expensive dog leash made of leather and braided silver in the drawer.
2. "She had it wrapped in tissue paper on her bureau."
1. In what context do Dr. Eckleburg’s eyes appear in this chapter?
Standing behind him Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg which had just emerged pale and enormous from the dissolving night.
"God sees everything," repeated Wilson.
（这个双眼睛在这里的隐喻是非常明显了的）
The police, on the strength of what he said to Michaelis, that he "had a way of finding out," supposed that he spent that time going from garage to garage thereabouts inquiring for a yellow car. On the other hand no garage man who had seen him ever came forward--and perhaps he had an easier, surer way of finding out what he wanted to know. By half past two he was in West Egg where he asked someone the way to Gatsby's house. So by that time he knew Gatsby's name.
1. What does Nick mean when he says, “If that was true [Gatsby might have realized that Daisy wasn’t going to call] he must have felt that he had lost the old, warm world, and paid a high price for living too long with a single dream”?
If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about... like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.
（说明GATSBY真正的从他那纯粹的梦中醒过来了，并且心灰意冷，不仅仅是爱情被抛弃，甚至被社会的现实，DAISY的现实，以及人性的丑恶所震惊）