Великий Гетсби лексика + пересказ

	restless	беспокойный
	mash note	Любовная записка
	dangling	висящий
	bystander	свидетель
	indignantly	с негодованием
	astonish	удивлять, изумлять
	Headlight	фара
	Tantalize	дразнить ложными надеждми
	Ashamed	пристыженный
	tighten	Сжиматься
	porch	подъезд, крыльцо
	resort	Прибежище
	vinous	Бордовый
	Freely	Обильно
	Overhang	Выступ, свес
	playful	Игривый
	Convivial	Праздничный
	Swamp	Болото
	Fade	Вянуть
	Politely	Любезно
	Significant	выразительный
	Rowdy	хулиган
	Grave	могила
	Sober	трезвый
	Mutter	бормотание
	Hastily	торопливо
	Thoroughness	тщательность
	Durable	Прочный
	Rambling	бродячий
	Shiver	осколок
	Eager	стремящийся
	Bead	бисер
	Lavender	лавандовый
	Premature	поспешный
	Absently	рассеяно
	Purposeless	бесполезный
	Vehement	страстный
	Dot	пятнышко
	Ease	досуг
	Employer	предприниматель
	Amusement	забава
	Joyful	довольный
	Wanderer	странник
	Chatter	болтовня
	Piccolo	флейта
	Affair	Любовная связь
	Harlequin	Арлекин
	Ravage	опустошать
	Slit	щель
	Omnibus	Рейсовый автобус
	Dignity	Достоинство
	Despair	безысходность
	Scolding	брань
	Bloody	пошлый
	Pour	ливень
	Enchant	очаровывать
	Secrecy	Секретность
	Strident	скрипучий
	Supper	ужин
	Incredulous	Недоверчивый
	Lick	Лизать
	Breeding	Хорошие манеры
	Shrill	визжать
	Obscene	неприличный
	Entry	Вестибюль
	Inquire	Наводить справки
	Ecstasy	восторг
	Shiftless	ленивый
	Audibly	Вслух
	Yawn	зевота
	Removed	Удаленный
	Adorable	Обожаемый
	Creak	Скрип
	Hauteur	Высокомерие
	Vitality	Жизнерадостность
	Handsome	Милый про мужчин
	Ectoplasm	эктоплазма
	Proprietary	Право собственности
	Powdered	Порошкообразный
	Drugstore	Аптека
	Blur	Клякса
	Elevator	Лифт
	Rapture	Восторг
	Doubtful	Полный сомнений
	Cower	Съеживаться
	Sharp	едкий
	Deferred	Замедленный
	Mingle	Смешиваться
	Smouldering	Тлеющий
	Surplus	излишек
	Damp	Сырость
	Anaemic	Безжизненный
	Sumptuous	Роскошный
	Stare	Пялиться
	Fence	Притон
	Whitewash	Побелка
	Supercilious	Высокомерный
	Mistress	Любовница
	Dismal	Мрачный
	Evidently	Очевидно
	Ghastly	Страшно
	Ash	Ясень
	Spade	Лопата
	Powdery	Припудренный
	Dime	Монета в 10 центов
	Shrink	усыхать
	Desolate	Заброшенный
	Trembling	Дрожь
	Determine	Определять
	Emerge	появляться
	Shed	Ронять
	Pump	Насос
	Nibble	Обгрызание
	Remote	Дальний
	Libel	Клевета
	Engaged	Помолвленный
	Corroborate	Подтверждать
	Cheerful	Бодрый
	Influence	Влияние
	Contemptuous	Высокомерный
	Toss	Толчок
	Crimson	Малиновый цвет
	Smirk	ухмыляться
	Abandoned	Покинутый
	Feeble	Немощный
	Cynical	Цинничный
	Sedative	Успокаивающий
	Miserably	Несчтастный
	Grasp	Схватывать
	Nod	Кивок
	Devoid	лишенный
	Stirring	перемешивание
	Hesitation	нерешительность
	Shifting	переключение
	Glance	взгляд
	Profound	глубокий
	Terrible	ужасный
	Unobtrusive	ненавязчивый
	Hulking	неповоротливый
	Brute	скотина
	Wedge	клин
	Beyond	Сзади
	Pantry	кладовая
	Stiff	жесткий
	Damned	проклятый
	Hover	зависать
	Persistent	стойкий
	Dozen	дюжина
	Whisper	шептать
	Exhibition	выставка
	Totter	ковылять
	Irrelevant	не имеет значения
	Witty	остроумный
	Attempt	попытка
	Murmur	ропот
	Motionless	неподвижный
	Balloon	Раздуваться
	Anchored	привязанного
	Rug	коврик
	Ceiling	потолок
	Breeze	ветер
	Ajar	приоткрытый
	Sweep	подметать
	Wistful	задумчивый
	Fractious	капризный
	Husky	хриплый
	Swank	фасонить
	Straw	солома
	Elaborate	разрабатывать
	Enormously	чрезвычайно
	Proximity	близость
	Eyesore	уродство
	Ivy	плющ
	Mansion	особняк
	Bizarre	эксцентричный
	Separate	отдельный
	Hemisphere	Полушарие
	Wingless	Бескрылый
	Slender	Худой
	Solemn	торжественный
	Conviction	убеждение
	Pathfinder	следопыт
	Permanently	постоянно
	Scorn	презирать
	Affected	пострадавших
	Glimpse	проблеск
	Admission	вход
	Mar	март
	Quiver	колчан
	Preoccupation	озабоченность
	Vulnerable	уязвимый
	Founder	основатель
	Descend	сходить
	Prominent	видный
	Temporary	временный
	Dignified	величавый
	Flabby	дряблый
	Responsive	отзывчивый
	Intricate	запутанный
	Gorgeous	великолепный

The Great Gatsby

In the summer of 1922, Nick Carraway, a Yale graduate and veteran of the Great War from the Midwest—who serves as the novel’s narrator—takes a job in New York as a bond salesman.

He rents a small house on Long Island, in the fictional village of West Egg, next door to the lavish mansion of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious multi-millionaire who holds extravagant parties but does not participate in them. Nick drives around the bay to East Egg for dinner at the home of his cousin, Daisy Fay Buchanan, and her husband, Tom, a college acquaintance of Nick’s. They introduce Nick to Jordan Baker, an attractive, cynical young golfer.

She reveals to Nick that Tom has a mistress, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the «valley of ashes», an industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, Nick travels to New York City with Tom and Myrtle to an apartment where Tom keeps his affairs with Myrtle and others. At Tom’s New York apartment, a vulgar and bizarre party takes place. It ends with Tom breaking Myrtle’s nose after she annoys him by saying Daisy’s name several times. Nick eventually receives an invitation to one of Gatsby’s parties. Nick encounters Jordan Baker at the party and they meet Gatsby himself, an aloof and surprisingly young man who recognizes Nick from their same division in the Great War. Through Jordan, Nick later learns that Gatsby knew Daisy through a purely chance meeting in 1917 when Daisy and her friends were doing volunteer services’ work with young officers headed to Europe. From their brief meetings and casual encounters at that time, Gatsby became (and still is) deeply in love with Daisy. Gatsby had hoped that his wild parties would attract an unsuspecting Daisy, who lived across the bay, to appear at his doorstep and allow him to present himself as a man of wealth and position. Having developed a budding friendship with Nick, Gatsby uses him to arrange a reunion between himself and Daisy. Nick invites Daisy to have tea at his house without telling her that Gatsby will also be there. After an initially awkward reunion, Gatsby and Daisy begin an affair over the summer.

At a luncheon at the Buchanans’ house, Daisy speaks to Gatsby with such undisguised intimacy that Tom realizes she is in love with Gatsby. Though Tom is himself involved in an extramarital affair, he is outraged by his wife’s infidelity. He forces the group to drive into New York City and confronts Gatsby in a suite at the Plaza Hotel, asserting that he and Daisy have a history that Gatsby could never understand. In addition to that, he announces to his wife that Gatsby is a criminal whose fortune comes from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities. Daisy realizes that her allegiance is to Tom, and Tom contemptuously sends her back to East Egg with Gatsby, attempting to prove that Gatsby cannot hurt her. On the way back, Gatsby’s car strikes and kills Tom’s mistress, Myrtle. Nick later learns from Gatsby that Daisy, not Gatsby himself, was driving the car at the time of the accident. Myrtle’s husband, George Wilson, falsely concludes that the driver of the yellow car is the secret lover he suspects she has. He learns that the yellow car is Gatsby’s, fatally shoots him and then turns the gun on himself. Nick stages an unsettlingly small funeral for Gatsby which none of Gatsby’s associates attend and only one of his partygoers (besides Nick) attends. Later, Nick runs into Tom in New York and finds out that Tom had told George that the yellow car was Gatsby’s and gave him Gatsby’s address. Disillusioned with the East, Nick moves back to the Midwest.

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter — tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... And one fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Гэтсби верил в зелёный огонёк, свет будущего счастья, которое отодвигается с каждым годом. Пусть оно ускользнуло сегодня, не беда — завтра мы побежим ещё быстрее, ещё дальше станем протягивать руки… и в одно прекрасное утро… Так мы и пытаемся плыть вперёд, борясь с течением, а оно всё сносит и сносит наши судёнышки обратно в прошлое.

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Нужно уметь быть человеку другом, пока он жив, а не тогда, когда он уже умер.

«Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.» - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Жизнь видишь лучше всего, когда наблюдаешь ее из единственного окна.

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Если тебе вдруг захочется осудить кого-то, вспомни, что не все люди на свете обладают теми преимуществами, которыми обладал ты.

“I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby