Historical Highbrow-Shawn

1. "Its a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people." -Jordan Baker
It is saying that in this time it is better to not drink around the outrageous people that do drink and so stupid things. Like in the present the people who drink and drive. They cause accidents and it is better not to drink. It represents the roaring twenties by showing about all the people that did drink back then and did un-logical things.

2. "There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights."
Showing the roaring twenties adventurous period and full of parties. With all the people that go through it. Today we still have those parties like sweet 16.

3. "I hope she'll be a fool  - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
That girls didn't have the full respect of men yet and all they could be is fools to get money or somewhere. As of today though everything has changed. Women don't have to be fools but whatever they want to be.

4. "There are only the pursed, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
Meaning that there are only people who have or still are following their dreams. People that are doing there jobs or tired from doing things for so long. It is still like that today also.

5. "It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
That in this time period race or intelligence does not matter. It is only the sick and well is how you were defined.