The Great Gatsby: A Short Story

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It was the night of one of Gatsby’s parties. I went with a few couples and a boy that I wasn’t much interested in, but they were so boring. I was staring absently in the garden when I saw Nick Carraway. He started heading towards me, and seeing as he was the only interesting person of the lot, I didn’t avoid him. While he was heading over, he yelled a greeting, much louder than was necessary. I offhandedly remarked about his living nearby, and was about to invite him to sit down when two girls in twin yellow dresses appeared in front of us. I vaguely recognized them from somewhere, but before I could speak, they started talking about my golf tourny, and introducing themselves as having met me at an earlier party, so that’s where I’d seen them. We exchanged pleasant small talk as we …show more content…

“I don’t think it’s so much that, it’s more that he was a German spy during the war.” pointed out Lucille. Then, one of the men nodded and said “I heard that from a man who knew all about him, grew up with him in Germany.” “Oh, no,” said the first girl, “it couldn’t be that, because he was in the American army during the war.” Everyone’s attention returned to her. “You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody’s looking at him. I’ll bet he killed a man.” Still overreacting, Lucille shivered. The rest of the table all turned and looked around for Gatsby. When it came time for dinner, I led Nick to the people I came with, but we soon became bored. “Let’s get out,” I whispered, after a while, “this is much too polite for me.” As we left to go, I told them we were going to find Gatsby. The guy I came with seemed unhappy, but didn’t say anything. We walked around looking for Gatsby, or anyone of interest for that matter. We checked around the yard, and then went up to the library. In it was some fool wearing huge glasses, and as we entered, he started questioning us about the books and exclaiming about the fact that they were real. It seemed as

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