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"A fellow's getting off some funny stuff.". I suspected that he meant my grass. I tell her she ought to leave it alone.". She's locked herself into her room and if he tries any brutality she's going to turn the light out and on again. I was brought. Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay. I wasn't worth a decent stroke of work but it was more than that--I didn't want to leave Gatsby. "What?" Standing behind him Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg which had just emerged pale and enormous from the dissolving night. I thought you might want to take the body west. About five o'clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetery and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate--first a motor hearse, horribly black and wet, then Mr. Gatz and the minister and I in the limousine, and, a little later, four or five servants and the postman from West Egg in Gatsby's station wagon, all wet to the skin. For over a year he had been beating his way along the south shore of Lake Superior as a clam digger and a salmon fisher or in any other capacity that brought him food and bed. He opened the door. He was incredulous. "You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your . I went in--after making every possible noise in the kitchen short of pushing over the stove--but I don't believe they heard a sound. . "Are you in love with me," she said low in my ear. (9.153-154) One of the most famous ending lines in modern literature, this quote is Nick's final analysis of Gatsbysomeone who believed in "the green light, the orgastic future" that he could never really attain. "Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!". The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight and turning my head to watch it I saw that I was not alone--fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor's mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars. "Did you see any trouble on the road?" The last line of The Great Gatsby is often referred to as the main character's constant desire to reclaim the past. I'm all out of prac----". And on Mondays eight servants including an extra gardener toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. "In fact I think I'll arrange a marriage. And I'd try to get hold of all the back hair. Once I wrote down on the empty spaces of a time-table the names of those who came to Gatsby's house that summer. A pause. ", "The dance?" ", "It's impossible this afternoon. I took her to the window--" With an effort he got up and walked to the rear window and leaned with his face pressed against it, "--and I said 'God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. He looked at me anxiously as if he hoped I'd corroborate this. I'm having a marvelous----", "You must see the faces of many people you've heard about.