Summertime

“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” (4).

Fitzgerald has done a rare thing, to combine beauty of language and depth of thought so skillfully.  It's a magnificent descriptive sentence about how exciting the summer is going to be and it references the variety of life and hope that Nick Carraway is about to experience. He compares sunshine and growth to a new chapter in his life. It is also showing how this book is going to be different and mysterious, which makes the readers want to keep reading. The Great Gatsby is really one of those pieces where every single line is gorgeous.

My version:

And so as the wind grew colder, the nights were longer and the leaves fell down, I figured that life was going to change as the wrath of winter approached.