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The Great Gatzby F. Scott Fitzgerald (评Lisa)
Chapter One
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me,“just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habitthat has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim ofnot a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about thatin college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy tothe secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought —frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering onthe horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the termsin which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvioussuppressions. Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still alittle afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. 小说开篇Nick就说起自己的父亲曾经教导自己的话，让他不要随意的评论别人，因为不是每个人都像他一样受命运的眷顾。随后，Nick又回忆起自己的大学时代，正是因为自己不随意对别人评头论足，能保守秘密，周围的同学朋友都争相想他倾诉心中秘密。
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