de Peter Griffith
Le roman Gatsby le Magnifique (Titre original, The Great Gatsby) de F. Scott Fitzgerald est paru il y a tout juste un siècle. Depuis lors, il fait partie des récits américains les plus populaires. Il représente le rêve américain et l’âge du jazz.
Un certain Jay Gatsby apparaît subitement dans la haute société new- yorkaise. Personne ne sait rien de son passé ni de l’origine de son énorme fortune. Dans sa propriété de Long Island, il organise des fêtes légendaires auxquelles le Gotha new-yorkais rêve d’être invité.
Mais Gatsby n’a d’autre objectif que de plaire à Daisy Buchanan, son amour de jeunesse et l’objet de tous ses désirs.
Daisy est mariée à Tom Buchanan, qui a une liaison avec Myrtle Wilson. Myrtle, épouse de George, le propriétaire d’une station essence, rêve de changer de vie et d’appartenir au monde fascinant des riches. Quand Nick Carraway, le cousin de Daisy, s’installe dans la propriété voisine de Gatsby, celui-ci y voit de nouvelles opportunités pour revoir Daisy…
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| Tom: | Self-control! I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well if that’s the idea you can count me out. Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white. |
| Jordan: | We’re all white here. |
| Tom: | I know I’m not very popular. I don’t give big parties. I suppose you’ve got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends, in the modern world. |
| Gatsby: | I’ve got something to tell you, old sport |
| Daisy: | Please don’t. Please let’s all go home. Why don’t we all go home? |
| Jordan: | That’s a good idea. Come on Tom. Nobody wants a drink. |
| Tom: | I want to know what Mr Gatsby has to tell me. |
| Gatsby: | Your wife doesn’t love you. She’s never loved you. She loves me. |
| Tom: | You must be crazy. |
| Gatsby: | She never loved you, do you hear? She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me! |
| Tom: | Sit down Daisy. What’s been going on? I want to hear all about it. |
| Gatsby: | I told you what’s been going on. Going for five years – and you didn’t know. |
| Tom: | You’ve been seeing this fellow for five years? |
| Gatsby: | Not seeing. No, we couldn’t meet. But both of us loved each other all the time, old sport, and you didn’t know. I used to laugh sometimes – to think that you didn’t know. |
| Tom: | Oh – that’s all. You’re crazy! I can’t speak about what happened five years ago, because I didn’t know Daisy then – and I’ll be damned if I see how you got within a mile of her unless you brought the groceries to the back door. But all the rest of that’s a God damned lie. Daisy loved me when she married me and she loves me now. |