GATSBY (pgs. 11-26)

wan: pail
languidly: relaxed but not too relaxed
Hulking:
claret: wine

Daisy looks to a moment but loses it, ad regrets it.
she's self-absorbed

shrilling metallic urgency is the phone ringing while they were at dinner.

*"it'll show you how I've gotten to feel about-- things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Town was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool-- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.'*

parenterally....?: cutting someone off before they had the chance to say something

What happened at dinner?

What're Tom's problems?

Are these people happy? They're all mysteries