AO1: The Great Gatsby Flashcards
How is Myrtle’s furniture described?
“furniture entirely too large”
How is Daisy described?
“golden girls”
How is human condition described (last line)?
“so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”
How does Nick describe Tom and daisy?
“They were careless people Tom and Daisy”
How does Gatsby’s description symbolize wealth and feminine attributes?
“Silver idols”
How is Daisy’s and Jordan’s innocence and purity described?
“White girlhood”
What statement reflects daisy’s privileged social class statement + easy mobility lifestyle?
“I’ve been everywhere, and seen everything, and done everything… God, I’m sophisticated!”
How does Gatsby try to convince him and Nick that he could recapture Daisy?
“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”
What are Daisy’s desires for her daughter to be frivolous, charming and dainty. She doesn’t want her to be a strong independent woman because life is always hard for those girls?
“Beautiful little fool”
How is Nick’s anger towards Jordan’s arranged marriage a reflection of Gatsby and Daisy’s half-love - he is the lover, and she is the object of his love?
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away”
How does Jordan justify the illusion of the wealthy class?
Small parties = one-dimensional personalities are laid bare
Large parties = accommodate masquerade bypassing the naked truth.
” I like big parties, they’re so intimate. At small parties, there isn’t any privacy”
What quote describes Gatsby’s character and his TRUE personality?
“One of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it”
What is the oxymoron used to contrast Gatsby’s parties?
“Blue gardens” [men and girls came and went like moths]
Which quote refers to the inevitable passage of time, and that he is gloomily envisaging the end of life that awaits them all?
“So we drive on towards death through the cooling twilight”
How does daisy reveal her love for Gatsby?
“You always look so cool”
What does Gatsby believe in?
“Gatsby believed in the green light”
How does Gatsby acknowledge that to have Daisy, you must have money?
“her voice is full of money”
What quote shows Nick’s tolerance of Jordan’s dishonesty foreshadows his later acceptance of his cousin Daisy’s even more devastating deception?
‘Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply”
How is Nick’s unreliable narration and pretentious nature shown?
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known”
How does Nick mention his shifting feelings towards Jordan throughout the novel?
“I wasn’t actually in love but I had a sort of tender curiosity”
Which quote is meant to shows irony skewing the extent to which wealth and prosperity breed unforgivable behavior?
“Just remember people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had”
How does Nick show his disgust towards the upper class?
“You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”
How does Nick show D+T carelessness?
“retreated back to their money”
How does Myrtle justify her affair with Tom?
“You can’t live forever”
How does Fitzgerald’s harsh diction characterize Tom and his personality?
“Two shining arrogant eyes has established dominance over his face”
How is George Wilson described?
“A spiritless man”
How is Tom’s violence presented, not as a sudden impulsive outburst, but as a considered, and physically adroit, act of discipline?
“Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”
How is Myrtle described as superior to George?
“Walking through her husband as if he were a ghost”
How do the oranges represent the emptiness and the lack of a substantial foundation in the lives of the rich?
“Pulpless halves”
How are Gatsby’s parties described?
“men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars”
How is Gatsbys realization of the past described?
“Having something in the present is never as good as your past self imagined it would be”
How does Fitzgerald suggests Gatsby is a great consumer of expensive items?
“Marble swimming pool”
How is the toll of poverty had on George?
“he was one of those worn out men”
How are the UC described ?
“Secret society”
What does Nick tell Gatsby that he can’t do?
“You can’t repeat the past “
What insult that seems to destroy Gatsby in Daisy’s eyes does Tom use?
“Mr Nobody from Nowhere”
How does Tom describe George Wilson?
“He’s so dumb he doesn’t he’s alive”
What does Daisy want her daughter to become?
“Beautiful little fool”
