And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I donβt care what itβs founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reactionβGatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. β¨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House), p.383, Book House
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