"'...I just remembered that today's my birthday.' I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade." (pg. 143)
I found this statement to be a little humorous. Nick doesn't even realize that it is his own birthday. He was so caught up in the drama around him that he forgot about his birthday. And when he remember, we was not excited at all. Remembering his birthday only seemed to add to his misery. Turning thirty was another miserable event to add to his life. I thought it was funny at first, but then I felt sorry for Nick. It is sad that he views his birthday with melancholy.
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