《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter IV》第19节
By the next autumn she was gay again, gay as ever. She had a début after the armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans. In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago, with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before. He came down with a hundred people in four private cars, and hired a whole floor of the Muhlbach Hotel, and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I was a bridesmaid. I came into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner, and found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress—and as drunk as a monkey. She had a bottle of Sauterne in one hand and a letter in the other. “ ’Gratulate me,” she muttered. “Never had a drink before, but oh how I do enjoy it.” “What’s the matter, Daisy?” I was scared, I can tell you; I’d never seen a girl like that before. “Here, dearies.” She groped around in a wastebasket she had with her on the bed and pulled out the string of pearls. “Take ’em downstairs and give ’em back to whoever they belong to. Tell ’em all Daisy’s change’ her mine. Say: ‘Daisy’s change’ her mine!’ ”
注释摘要
乔丹·贝克此刻为我们讲述的是黛西婚礼前的那个六月之夜，这是整个第四章里最关键的一段回忆。我们先说字面上发生了什么。停战协定之后，黛西完成了社交界初登场，次年二月传闻与一位新奥尔良的男子订婚，但到了六月，她嫁给了芝加哥的汤姆·布坎南。汤姆的排场极其铺张——四节私人车厢、一百个宾客、包下穆尔巴赫酒店整层楼，婚礼前夕送了一条三十五万美元的珍珠项链。乔丹作为伴娘，…