The Great Gatsby

They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door. She was effectually prevented, but she wasn’t on speaking terms with her family for several weeks. However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders. Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.”