The Great Gatsby · 2013 — 第 18 / 18 章 · 3'13" · B2

Gatsby Keeps Vigil Until Dawn, Explained:made something of myself

After the accident, Gatsby refuses to leave Daisy's house and insists she will call by morning, while Nick tries to make him run. Then comes the request, "Wait up with me," and as the sun rises he finally tells the truth about his past—and why every house and party existed.

あらすじ

Dawn, outside Daisy's house. Gatsby won't leave and keeps saying Daisy will call in the morning, brushing off the warning that his car will be traced. Nick stays with him. As the light comes up, Gatsby finally tells the whole story: growing up poor, meeting Dan Cody, the war, Oxford, and the business he joined, all of it aimed at one woman.

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figure outthink things throughthe truth ismake things up

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このシーンの表現

figure out

弄明白;想清楚;算出

盖茨比在黎明回忆自己如何盘算和黛西结婚后的生活。

I finally figured out why the printer wasn't working.

このシーンの他の表現

  • think things through

    把事情想清楚;考虑周全

  • the truth is

    事实是;说实话

  • make things up

    to invent stories or facts that are not true

このシーンのメモ一覧

55 行のセリフに 36 件のメモ

表現 · B2give someone a handGive me a hand, will you, old sport?
発音Give me a hand

liaison

Give me a hand, will you, old sport?
表現 · B2should have done somethingI should have told him what I had just seen, but...
文法 · C1I should have told him what I had just seen

perfect modal

I should have told him what I had just seen, but...
表現 · C1all one could manage was...all I could manage was:
表現 · B1everything that's happenedYou know, Jay, with everything that's happened...
表現 · B2ought to do something...you ought to go away.
表現 · B1can't leaveGo away? No, I can't leave now.
表現 · B1be killedJay, do you understand that a woman has been killed?
表現 · B1call in the morningDaisy's going to call in the morning.
表現 · B1make plans to do somethingThen we'll make plans to go away together.
表現 · B2think something through- Yeah. - Daisy, she- She just needs time to think things through. Herzog...
表現 · B1need time to thinkShe just needs time to think.
表現 · B1wait up with someoneWait up with me.
発音Wait up

liaison

Wait up with me.
表現 · B1the sun is almost upThe sun's almost up.
表現 · B1tell someone the truthThat was the night he finally told me the truth.
発音told me the truth

elision

That was the night he finally told me the truth.
表現 · B2the truth is...I had a lot of things, but the truth is I'm empty.
表現 · B2make something up

to invent stories or facts that are not true

I suppose that's why I make things up about myself.
表現 · B1grow up poorSee, I grew up terribly, terribly poor, old sport.
スラング · B1folks- My folks were... NICK: He revealed his humble beginnings...
表現 · B2a gift for something...that I became aware of Gatsby's extraordinary gift for hope.
表現 · B1find out somethingI can't describe how surprised I was to find out that I loved her.
表現 · B1never realizedI never realized how extraordinary...
表現 · B2not likely to do somethingAnd which it is not likely I shall ever find again.
表現 · B2think something outI thought out my life with Daisy in it...
表現 · B1figure out something...trying to figure out how we could marry...
文法 · B2trying to figure out how we could marry

noun clause

...trying to figure out how we could marry...
表現 · C1struggle along on something...and struggle along on so many dollars a month.
表現 · B1in the letterWhat was in the letter?
表現 · B1be able to do somethingThe reason why after the war I hadn't been able to return.
表現 · B2make something of oneselfI asked her to wait until I made something of myself, but she was...
文法 · B2until I made something of myself

until clause

I asked her to wait until I made something of myself, but she was...
表現 · B2feel married to someoneSee, I felt married to her.
表現 · B1be all for someoneIt was all for her.

「Gatsby Keeps Vigil Until Dawn」を読み解く

What's really going on

Gatsby's vigil is denial dressed as patience. A woman is dead, the car can be traced, and the only thing he will say is that Daisy will call; the warning bounces off him because the future he is protecting has no room for consequences. The confession that follows reframes everything: he did not inherit his fortune, he assembled it, and every piece was built for one woman. "I had a lot of things, but the truth is I'm empty" is the tell—the house and the parties were never a life, they were a courtship staged on a scale big enough to reach her. Nick's narration also names the quality that makes Gatsby both admirable and doomed: his extraordinary gift for hope. The closing line, "It was all for her," is admiration and diagnosis at once.

Theme

DreamsGatsby's confession reveals that the fortune, the house and the parties were all scaffolding for one dream of reclaiming Daisy.
LiesHe admits he invented his own past to cover his poverty, and keeps the last lie going: Daisy will not call, but he insists she will.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Use figure out when you need a plan
  • Hear wait up as stay awake with someone
  • Catch think things through as careful deciding
  • Know make things up means invent a story
  • Hear I'm empty as a hollow confession

発音のポイント

  • Give me a hand — liaison
  • Wait up — liaison
  • told me the truth — elision
That was the night he finally told me the truth.

A narrator's marker: after the worst thing has happened, the withholding finally breaks and the version of the man built on invention gives way to the real one.

I suppose that's why I make things up about myself.

It links his lying to a sense of emptiness. Because his actual life feels insufficient, he keeps authoring a grander past to fill it in.

A gift that I have never found in any other person.

The line singles out hope as Gatsby's rarest quality, and the narration frames it as something precious, not merely naive.

It was all for her.

The whole enterprise—money, house, parties—is reduced to a single motive. It reads as devotion, though the scale of it also shows how much of reality was edited out.

このシーンについての質問

Why won't Gatsby leave after Myrtle is killed?

He is waiting for Daisy's phone call and treating the accident as something the two of them can still outrun. The warning that his car will be traced does not land, because leaving would mean admitting the future he wants is gone.

Did Daisy ever call Gatsby?

No call is shown, and the film moves on to Gatsby dying at his own pool. His all-night certainty that she will ring is the last illusion the scene sets up, one he never lets go of.

Why does Gatsby say he makes things up about himself?

He admits he invented a past grand enough to deserve Daisy, because the real one—poverty and struggle—felt like something to hide. Inventing himself and inventing his fortune come from the same impulse.

Where did Gatsby's fortune actually come from?

Not from any inheritance. Here he traces it to meeting Dan Cody, serving in the war, going to Oxford, and joining Wolfshiem in a business that is never fully spelled out, which is exactly the point.

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