Character is plot, plot is character.

“Idiot!" he cried, "that from you! Here I sit, young Anthony, as I'll sit for a …”

“Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his li…”

“...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of i…”

“Fatigue was a drug as well as a poison, and Stahr apparently derived some rare …”