“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Fitzgerald, Scott. ”Chapter Nine.” The Great Gatsby.
“As for Tom, the fact that he ‘had some woman in New York’ was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.”
Fitzgerald, Scott. ”Chapter One.” The Great Gatsby
“This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn’t believe it – I had no sight into Daisy’s heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.”
Fitzgerald, Scott. ”Chapter One.” The Great Gatsby