American Quotes Flashcards
Antonia - work
- “i like to be like a man”
- “fieldwork will spoil that girl; she’ll lose all her nice ways and get rough ones. / she had lost them already”
Greed - Gatsby
- “he and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug stores and sold grain alcohol over the counter”
- “it excited him too that many men had already loved daisy - it increased her value in his eyes”
Corruption - Wick Cutter
- “[Cutter] contributed regularly to the protestant churches”
- “[Cutter was] full of moral maxims for boys”
Corruption and superficiality - GG
- “they smashed up things and… then retreated back into their money… and let other people clean up the mess they had made”
- “in his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths” but didn’t come to his funeral
Greed - women MA
- “I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody”
- “[Tiny] was satisfied with her success but not elated”
Greed - women GG
- “[Jordan] instinctively avoided clever shrewd men… she was incurably dishonest”
- “left breast was swinging loose like a flap… the mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners”
America - Jim
“There was nothing but land: not country at all but the material out of which countries are made”
Jim’s grandad
“The prayers of all good people are good”
Mrs Shimerda’s hopes for America
“America big country; much money, much land for my boys, much husband for my girls”
Jim - hired girls
“Considered a menace to the social order”
“If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry”
Jim - memories
“Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again”
“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past”
Zelda
“I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world”
Myrtle on Wilson
“he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe”
Wilson description
“blond, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly helpless”
Gatsby’s smile
“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it”
