Chap 5 Quotes Flashcards
I haven’t made use of it all summer
Significant as he later dies in it
The day agreed upon pouring rain
Pathetic fallacy as rain stops when daisy arrives
White flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold coloured tie
He looked at his watch as if there was some pressing demand on his time
Imagery
Exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain
Glamour
Gatsby, pale as death
Pathetic and ridiculous
aware of the loud beating of my own heart in pulled the door against the increasing rain
Voyeuristic nerves
Climax
I heart sort of a chocking murmur and part of a laugh, followed by Daisy’s voice
I certainly am awfully glad to see you again
His head leaves back so far that it rested against the face of a defunct mantle piece clock
The clock took this moment to tilt dangerously… whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers
I’m sorry about the clock
Clock represents passing of time
Apologetic for time he has wasted
5 years next November
The automatic quality of gatsbys answer set us all back
This is a terrible mistake
Afraid of reality
You’re acting like a little boy
After half an hour, the sun shone again
He literally glowed
Peak point in dream
Twinkle bells of sunshine in the room
Ecstatic patron of recurrent light
I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business
1920s prohibition
As thought in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real
Reality is different
Dreamed right through to the end … now he was running down like an over wound clock
Time is gatsbys villain
They’re such beautiful shirts
Symbolic of what has been lost in 5 years
It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such - such beautiful shirts before
If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay
You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock
Colossal significant of that light had now vanished forever
It had seemed as close as a star to the moon
Dreams
Now it was again a green light on a dock
His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one
It was an hour of profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air
World centred around wealth
Almost 5 years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.
He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart.
Human existence
Link to end of novel
Because it couldn’t be over dreamed - that voice was a deathless song
