Gatsby's Serf's Dinner

Gatsby's lawn abounded in small, muddy swamps and prehistoric marshes. He followed me wildly into the kitchen where he said: 'This is a terrible mistake' I walked out the back way just as Gatsby had when he had made his nervous circuit of the house half an hour before. There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house. So I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour. Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. After half an hour, the sun shone again, and the grocer's automobile rounded Gatsby