《了不起的盖茨比·Chapter VI》第16节
“She didn’t like it,” he said immediately. “Of course she did.” “She didn’t like it,” he insisted. “She didn’t have a good time.” He was silent, and I guessed at his unutterable depression. “I feel far away from her,” he said. “It’s hard to make her understand.” “You mean about the dance?” “The dance?” He dismissed all the dances he had given with a snap of his fingers. “Old sport, the dance is unimportant.” He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: “I never loved you.” After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house—just as if it were five years ago. “And she doesn’t understand,” he said. “She used to be able to understand. We’d sit for hours—” He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favours and crushed flowers. “I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
注释摘要
这短短一段对话，揭开的是盖茨比整场盛大表演背后那颗几乎不敢跳动的真心。尼克只描述，不加渲染：盖茨比从台阶上走下来，脸上的皮肤绷得异样紧，眼睛亮而疲惫，开口就是一句“她不喜欢”。尼克试图安慰，说“当然喜欢”，但盖茨比固执地重复了“她不喜欢”，又追加上一句更致命的诊断：“她玩得不开心。”紧接着是沉默，尼克只能“猜测他未说出口的、无法言说的沮丧”——“unutt…