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The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 4
2 His children sold his house with the black wreath still on the door.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 5
3 He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 6
4 So I didn't know whether or not Gatsby went to Coney Island or for how many hours he "glanced into rooms" while his house blazed gaudily on.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 5
5 A maid began opening the upper windows of his house, appeared momentarily in each, and, leaning from a large central bay, spat meditatively into the garden.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 5
6 He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 5
7 It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night--and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 7
8 For several weeks I didn't see him or hear his voice on the phone--mostly I was in New York, trotting around with Jordan and trying to ingratiate myself with her senile aunt--but finally I went over to his house one Sunday afternoon.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 6
9 My Finn informed me that Gatsby had dismissed every servant in his house a week ago and replaced them with half a dozen others, who never went into West Egg Village to be bribed by the tradesmen, but ordered moderate supplies over the telephone.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 7
10 At first I was surprised and confused; then, as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 9