Hello everyone,
The novel The Great Gatsby of F. Scott Fitzgerald is introduced by the following passage :
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry 'Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!'
The first line is clear and means if a girl's attention may be caught by buying expensive clothes ( and more general things I guess ) then do it. But what does it mean to " bounce high " . Does the author mean you have to work hard to achieve great things in order to seduce the girl ? Or just to do idiot things so that girl distinguishes you ?
I hope you can help me understand that introduction.
Thanks,