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.

“And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of …”

“The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.”

“He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, wait…”

“and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish …”