...now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses...island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes—a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for...

...now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses...sailors' eyes - a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to...

...flung down by the famous last page, the lyrical depiction of the great deadly hunger that is America: And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses...sailors' eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to...

...past merges with the public experience to create something which almost resembles a mystical insight: I became aware of the old island here that flowered...sailors' eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby 's house, had once pandered in whispers...

...that Helen is not alone. A lot of people take the history of East Hampton very seriously. CHAPTER TWO And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses...sailors' eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to...

...investigate" (GG 181) — that he is able truly to confront Gatsby's ideality and his necessary death: "The inessential houses began to melt away until gradually...sailors' eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. ... As I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked...

...standing near the tip of Long Island in the 1920s, reminds us of the poetry of unintentional discovery: "And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually 1 became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes — a fresh, green...

...realization of the significance of Gatsby's journey — to recapture lost innocence — comes home to him: / became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes — afresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's...

...fastnesses of his safe home, Nick pays a last visit to what had been Gatsby's house. There it is that, "as the moon rose higher[,] the inessential houses began to melt away until" Nick has his epiphany, experiencing if not quite articulating the sheer hold of the land itself, and...

...stones, my empery, How blest am I in this discovering thee! JOHN DONNE, "To His Mistress Going to Bed" And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses...sailors' eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to...