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What advice did the speaker's father give them about criticizing others?	Free eBooks at Planet eBook.comChapter In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’He didn’t say any more but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that	### Human: What advice did the speaker's father give them about criticizing others? ### Assistant: Free eBooks at Planet eBook.comChapter In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’He didn’t say any more but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that
What is the narrator's attitude towards reserving judgments and how does it impact their experiences with others?	In consequence I’m in-clined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores	### Human: What is the narrator's attitude towards reserving judgments and how does it impact their experiences with others? ### Assistant: In consequence I’m in-clined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores
Why was the speaker unjustly accused of being a politician in college?	The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men	### Human: Why was the speaker unjustly accused of being a politician in college? ### Assistant: The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men
What strategies did the speaker employ to navigate and potentially avoid intimate revelations from others?	Most of the con-fidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quiver-ing on the horizon—for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions	### Human: What strategies did the speaker employ to navigate and potentially avoid intimate revelations from others? ### Assistant: Most of the con-fidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quiver-ing on the horizon—for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions
What does reserving judgments imply for the individual?	Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope	### Human: What does reserving judgments imply for the individual? ### Assistant: Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope
What realization does the narrator come to about their tolerance despite their initial boastful attitude?	I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my fa- The Great Gatsbyther snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit	### Human: What realization does the narrator come to about their tolerance despite their initial boastful attitude? ### Assistant: I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my fa- The Great Gatsbyther snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit
What is the significance of the foundation for conduct, according to the given content?	Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on	### Human: What is the significance of the foundation for conduct, according to the given content? ### Assistant: Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don’t care what it’s founded on
Why did the speaker desire for the world to be in uniform and at moral attention forever upon returning from the East last autumn?	When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I want-ed no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart	### Human: Why did the speaker desire for the world to be in uniform and at moral attention forever upon returning from the East last autumn? ### Assistant: When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I want-ed no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart
Who is the only person exempt from the speaker's reaction in the given content?	Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffect-ed scorn	### Human: Who is the only person exempt from the speaker's reaction in the given content? ### Assistant: Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffect-ed scorn
What qualities suggest that the person being described has a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life in the given excerpt?	If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away	### Human: What qualities suggest that the person being described has a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life in the given excerpt? ### Assistant: If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away
What qualities defined the responsiveness and readiness for hope displayed by the individual in the given content?	This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the ‘creative temperament’—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again	### Human: What qualities defined the responsiveness and readiness for hope displayed by the individual in the given content? ### Assistant: This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the ‘creative temperament’—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again
What impact did Gatsby's experiences have on the narrator's perspective towards the sorrows and elations of men?	No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations	### Human: What impact did Gatsby's experiences have on the narrator's perspective towards the sorrows and elations of men? ### Assistant: No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations
What family tradition does the narrator claim to be a part of in the given content?	The Car- Free eBooks at Planet eBook.comraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the ac-tual founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father car-ries on today.I never saw this great-uncle but I’m supposed to look like him—with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father’s office	### Human: What family tradition does the narrator claim to be a part of in the given content? ### Assistant: The Car- Free eBooks at Planet eBook.comraways are something of a clan and we have a tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the ac-tual founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War and started the wholesale hardware business that my father car-ries on today.I never saw this great-uncle but I’m supposed to look like him—with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father’s office
When did the speaker graduate from New Haven University, and what major event did they participate in shortly thereafter?	I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic mi-gration known as the Great War	### Human: When did the speaker graduate from New Haven University, and what major event did they participate in shortly thereafter? ### Assistant: I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic mi-gration known as the Great War
What caused you to feel restless after enjoying the counter-raid so thoroughly?	I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless	### Human: What caused you to feel restless after enjoying the counter-raid so thoroughly? ### Assistant: I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless
What motivated the decision to go east and pursue a career in the bond business?	Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go east and learn the bond business	### Human: What motivated the decision to go east and pursue a career in the bond business? ### Assistant: Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go east and learn the bond business
Who was in the bond business that the speaker knew?	Everybody I knew was in the bond business so I supposed it could support one more single man	### Human: Who was in the bond business that the speaker knew? ### Assistant: Everybody I knew was in the bond business so I supposed it could support one more single man
What did the aunts and uncles discuss while choosing a prep-school for the speaker?	All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said, ‘Why—ye-es’ with very grave, hesitant faces	### Human: What did the aunts and uncles discuss while choosing a prep-school for the speaker? ### Assistant: All my aunts and uncles talked it over as if they were choosing a prep-school for me and finally said, ‘Why—ye-es’ with very grave, hesitant faces
What motivated the narrator to consider taking a house in a commuting town despite the practical need for rooms in the city?	Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east, perma-nently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office sug-gested that we take a house together in a commuting town it sounded like a great idea	### Human: What motivated the narrator to consider taking a house in a commuting town despite the practical need for rooms in the city? ### Assistant: Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east, perma-nently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two.The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office sug-gested that we take a house together in a commuting town it sounded like a great idea
What unexpected change occurred that led to the protagonist going out to the country alone in "The Great Gatsby"?	He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I wentThe Great Gatsbyout to the country alone	### Human: What unexpected change occurred that led to the protagonist going out to the country alone in "The Great Gatsby"? ### Assistant: He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I wentThe Great Gatsbyout to the country alone
What significant event took place when the man asked for directions to West Egg village?	I had a dog, at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and mut-tered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.‘How do you get to West Egg village?’ he asked helpless-ly.I told him	### Human: What significant event took place when the man asked for directions to West Egg village? ### Assistant: I had a dog, at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and mut-tered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road.‘How do you get to West Egg village?’ he asked helpless-ly.I told him
How did the speaker's feelings change as they continued walking?	And as I walked on I was lonely no longer	### Human: How did the speaker's feelings change as they continued walking? ### Assistant: And as I walked on I was lonely no longer
What roles did you fulfill in your journey?	I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler	### Human: What roles did you fulfill in your journey? ### Assistant: I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler
How does the narrator's surroundings and atmosphere contribute to their feeling of life beginning anew in the summer?	He had casu-ally conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees—just as things grow in fast movies—I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.There was so much to read for one thing and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giv-ing air	### Human: How does the narrator's surroundings and atmosphere contribute to their feeling of life beginning anew in the summer? ### Assistant: He had casu-ally conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees—just as things grow in fast movies—I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.There was so much to read for one thing and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giv-ing air
What is the significance of the volumes on banking, credit, and investment securities standing on the shelf in red and gold like new money?	I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Mae-cenas knew	### Human: What is the significance of the volumes on banking, credit, and investment securities standing on the shelf in red and gold like new money? ### Assistant: I bought a dozen volumes on banking and credit and investment securities and they stood on my shelf in red and gold like new money from the mint, promising to unfold the shining secrets that only Midas and Morgan and Mae-cenas knew
What is the extent of your intention to read books beyond the one currently being discussed?	And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides	### Human: What is the extent of your intention to read books beyond the one currently being discussed? ### Assistant: And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides
What prompted the narrator to aspire to become a "well-rounded man" after his experience writing editorials for the 'Yale News'?	I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the ‘Yale News’—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the ‘well-rounded man.’ This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all. Free eBooks at Planet eBook.comIt was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North Ameri-ca	### Human: What prompted the narrator to aspire to become a "well-rounded man" after his experience writing editorials for the 'Yale News'? ### Assistant: I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the ‘Yale News’—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the ‘well-rounded man.’ This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all. Free eBooks at Planet eBook.comIt was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North Ameri-ca
What are the two unusual formations of land on the slender riotous island east of New York?	It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land	### Human: What are the two unusual formations of land on the slender riotous island east of New York? ### Assistant: It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land
Where in the Western Hemisphere can two enormous eggs be found jutting out into Long Island Sound?	Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound	### Human: Where in the Western Hemisphere can two enormous eggs be found jutting out into Long Island Sound? ### Assistant: Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound
What is the physical resemblance between the objects being described and what confusion might it cause to the gulls flying overhead?	They are not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead	### Human: What is the physical resemblance between the objects being described and what confusion might it cause to the gulls flying overhead? ### Assistant: They are not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead
What contrasts are highlighted between the two locations described in the content?	To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bi-zarre and not a little sinister contrast between them	### Human: What contrasts are highlighted between the two locations described in the content? ### Assistant: To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bi-zarre and not a little sinister contrast between them
What is the approximate value of the properties neighboring the narrator's house in the given passage?	My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season	### Human: What is the approximate value of the properties neighboring the narrator's house in the given passage? ### Assistant: My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season
What impressive features did the structure on the right possess?	The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imi-tation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden	### Human: What impressive features did the structure on the right possess? ### Assistant: The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imi-tation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden
Whose mansion was it in the given content?	It was Gatsby’s mansion	### Human: Whose mansion was it in the given content? ### Assistant: It was Gatsby’s mansion
Who is the subject being referred to as "Mr"?	Or rather, as I didn’t know Mr	### Human: Who is the subject being referred to as "Mr"? ### Assistant: Or rather, as I didn’t know Mr
Who was the inhabitant of the mansion known as Gatsby?	Gatsby it was a mansion inhabited by a gentle-man of that name	### Human: Who was the inhabitant of the mansion known as Gatsby? ### Assistant: Gatsby it was a mansion inhabited by a gentle-man of that name
What key elements of the setting are highlighted in the excerpt from "The Great Gatsby"?	My own house was an eye-sore, but it was a small eye-sore, and it had been overlooked, so I had aThe Great Gatsbyview of the water, a partial view of my neighbor’s lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dol-lars a month.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 Tom Buchanans	### Human: What key elements of the setting are highlighted in the excerpt from "The Great Gatsby"? ### Assistant: My own house was an eye-sore, but it was a small eye-sore, and it had been overlooked, so I had aThe Great Gatsbyview of the water, a partial view of my neighbor’s lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dol-lars a month.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 Tom Buchanans
Have you met Daisy, my second cousin once removed, and Tom from college?	Daisy was my second cousin once removed and I’d known Tom in college	### Human: Have you met Daisy, my second cousin once removed, and Tom from college? ### Assistant: Daisy was my second cousin once removed and I’d known Tom in college
What physical accomplishments did the husband of the person in the content achieve?	And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago.Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven—a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-cli-max	### Human: What physical accomplishments did the husband of the person in the content achieve? ### Assistant: And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago.Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven—a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-cli-max
What led to the significant lifestyle change of the individual from being criticized for his spending habits in college to exhibiting extravagant wealth in the present?	His family were enormously wealthy—even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach—but now he’d left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest	### Human: What led to the significant lifestyle change of the individual from being criticized for his spending habits in college to exhibiting extravagant wealth in the present? ### Assistant: His family were enormously wealthy—even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach—but now he’d left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest