LICIA
"There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
ANGELA
"We went on , cutting back again over the Park towards the West Hundreds. At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses."
EMILY
"Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water,..."
ALEX
"We went on, cutting back again over the Park towards the Hundreds. At 158th Street the cab stopped on a slice in a long white cake of apartment-house. Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighbourhood..."
COSTANZA
"Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Buchanans."
KATRINA
"The eyes of Doctor T.J.Ecklebere are blue and gigantic - their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face, but instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose.
The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river."
ANYSA
"He stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling."
TIM
"There was music from my neighbour's house through the nights. In his blue gardens en and girls came and went like moths amog the whispering and the champagne and the stars."
GLORIA
"Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins..."
JOHAN
"Above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive after a moment the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg."
JONATHAN
"Above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust, his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground."