Chapter 6
Gatsby's Life Story on the Road to Town
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1 Church bells ring on a bright Sunday as Gatsby's guests gather again on his vast lawn
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2 An old railway timetable crowded with faded names of everyone at Gatsby's that summer
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3 On a bright July morning, Gatsby's huge cream car lurches up to Nick's grey bungalow
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4 On a late-July morning Gatsby balances on the dashboard of his long cream car in Nick's rocky drive.
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5 As Gatsby says he was educated at Oxford, his blue-grey eyes slide sideways toward Nick
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6 At the wheel, Gatsby says Little Montenegro! with a full, warm smile over an open palm
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7 Gatsby drops a medal on a ribbon into Nick's open palm, the sun flashing on the metal
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8 Nick lowers Gatsby's Oxford photograph onto his chest and stops doubting.
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9 From Gatsby's speeding car, Nick glimpses Mrs. Wilson straining at the garage pump
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10 Under the elevated, Gatsby waves a small white card at a frowning motorcycle policeman
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11 Seen through the Queensboro Bridge girders, Manhattan rises white across the river
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12 On the Queensboro Bridge, Nick leans toward Manhattan's white towers in wonder
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