American Dream

Question 1

Hope

Answer 1

Extraordinary gift for home

Question 2

Foul dust

Answer 2

It was what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams

Question 3

Stretched

Answer 3

Stretched out his arms towards the dark water…trembling….distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away

Question 4

Ashes

Answer 4

Ashes grow like wheat…grotesque gardens…ash-grey men

Question 5

Colossal

Answer 5

Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever

Question 6

Colossal vitality

Answer 6

Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not throw her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion

Question 7

Parents

Answer 7

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all

Question 8

Platonic

Answer 8

Sprang from his platonic conceptions of himself

Question 9

Invented

Answer 9

So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent

Question 10

Nobody

Answer 10

‘My Nobody from Nowhere’

Question 11

Broken

Answer 11

‘Jay Gatsby’ had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out

Question 12

Fresh, green

Answer 12

Dutch sailor’s eyes - a fresh, green breast of the new world

Question 13

Vanished trees

Answer 13

It’s vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dream

Question 14

Capacity

Answer 14

Face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder

Question 15

Orgastic

Answer 15

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year receded before us

Question 16

Boats

Answer 16

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past

Question 17

Incomplete a vessel {Jim Cullen}

Answer 17

‘Any American Dream is too incomplete a vessel to contain longings that elude human expression and comprehension’ ~ Jim Cullen

Question 18

Everything {Fitzgerald}

Answer 18

‘Everything is possible…I am in the land of ambition and success’ ~ Fitzgerald wrote to Zelda, at 23 when he first moved to New York

Question 19

Suck

Answer 19

Suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder

Question 20

Swimming

Answer 20

‘Marble swimming pool’

Question 21

Left breast

Answer 21

‘Her left breast was swinging loose like a flap’

Question 22

Story

Answer 22

This has been a story of the West, after all