"I wanted to get out and walk southward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. . . People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away." (40-41) F. Scott FitzgeraldThursday, October 18, 2012
Casual Watcher
"I wanted to get out and walk southward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. . . People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away." (40-41) F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This was an interesting Blog, when reading it i got caught up in trying to understand the meaning behind it.Finally I realized that there's really no meaning behind this, it's blatantly telling you that life is so hectic that you become blind of what you are really living. This is what i interpreted , did you find a different meaning behind this?
ReplyDeleteI felt the same way about this quote. I could relate to Nick's distant composure within this busy part of the book.
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