Subj : to pull the door to against
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Anton Shepelev
Date : Sun Feb 16 2020 21:16:52

Alexander Koryagin:

AK> So in normal language the sentence will look like this:
AK>
AK> "... I closed the door because the rain was increasing."

It has a different meaning for two reasons: "close" can mean
more than just pulling to, and there  is  no  indication  of
increasing rain in the original.  In that sentence, Gatsby's
language *is* normal, euphonic, and brief.

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