《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter IV》第20节
She began to cry—she cried and cried. I rushed out and found her mother’s maid, and we locked the door and got her into a cold bath. She wouldn’t let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow. But she didn’t say another word. We gave her spirits of ammonia and put ice on her forehead and hooked her back into her dress, and half an hour later, when we walked out of the room, the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over. Next day at five o’clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver, and started off on a three months’ trip to the South Seas. I saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back, and I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband. If he left the room for a minute she’d look around uneasily, and say: “Where’s Tom gone?” and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door. She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour, rubbing her fingers over his eyes and looking at him with unfathomable delight. It was touching to see them together—it made you laugh in a hushed, fascinated way. That was in August. A week after I left Santa Barbara Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night, and ripped a front wheel off his car. The girl who was with him got into the papers, too, because her arm was broken—she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel.
注释摘要
乔丹·贝克此刻坐在广场酒店茶园的直背椅上，正在向尼克讲述一九一七年秋天黛西·费伊的故事。这一节是整段回忆中情感最剧烈、转折最突兀的核心片段。 字面上，她讲的是一桩婚礼前夜的私密事故。婚礼晚宴前半小时，身为伴娘的乔丹走进黛西的房间，发现她醉得不成样子，一手攥着酒瓶，一手捏着一封信。黛西要她把汤姆·布坎南送的那串三十五万美元的珍珠项链拿去退掉，宣布“黛西改主意…