To be afraid, a person has either to be very great and strong-- or else a coward. I'm neither.

“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul …”

“What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling he…”

“When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear les…”

“Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that…”