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 Current Search - understandingly in The Great Gatsby
1  She used to be able to understand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  "And she doesn't understand," he said.
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3  "You don't understand," explained the criminal.
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4  He smiled understandingly--much more than understandingly.
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5  For a moment he looked at me as if he failed to understand.
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6  "You don't understand," said Gatsby, with a touch of panic.
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7  She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.
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8  And I don't understand why you won't come out frankly and tell me what you want.
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9  Nevertheless there was a vague understanding that had to be tactfully broken off before I was free.
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10  I thought you didn't, if you'll pardon my--you see, I carry on a little business on the side, a sort of sideline, you understand.
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11  First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile, as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the time.
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12  It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand.
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13  She must have broken her rule against drinking that night for when she arrived she was stupid with liquor and unable to understand that the ambulance had already gone to Flushing.
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