Chap 5 Quotes

Question 1

I haven’t made use of it all summer

Significant as he later dies in it

Answer 1

The day agreed upon pouring rain

Pathetic fallacy as rain stops when daisy arrives

Question 2

White flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold coloured tie

Answer 2

He looked at his watch as if there was some pressing demand on his time

Imagery

Question 3

Exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain

Glamour

Answer 3

Gatsby, pale as death

Pathetic and ridiculous

Question 4

aware of the loud beating of my own heart in pulled the door against the increasing rain

Voyeuristic nerves
Climax

Answer 4

I heart sort of a chocking murmur and part of a laugh, followed by Daisy’s voice

Question 5

I certainly am awfully glad to see you again

Answer 5

His head leaves back so far that it rested against the face of a defunct mantle piece clock

Question 6

The clock took this moment to tilt dangerously… whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers

Answer 6

I’m sorry about the clock

Clock represents passing of time
Apologetic for time he has wasted

Question 7

5 years next November

Answer 7

The automatic quality of gatsbys answer set us all back

Question 8

This is a terrible mistake

Afraid of reality

Answer 8

You’re acting like a little boy

Question 9

After half an hour, the sun shone again

Answer 9

He literally glowed

Peak point in dream

Question 10

Twinkle bells of sunshine in the room

Answer 10

Ecstatic patron of recurrent light

Question 11

I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business

1920s prohibition

Answer 11

As thought in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real

Reality is different

Question 12

Dreamed right through to the end … now he was running down like an over wound clock

Time is gatsbys villain

Answer 12

They’re such beautiful shirts

Symbolic of what has been lost in 5 years

Question 13

It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such - such beautiful shirts before

Answer 13

If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay

Question 14

You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock

Answer 14

Colossal significant of that light had now vanished forever

Question 15

It had seemed as close as a star to the moon

Dreams

Answer 15

Now it was again a green light on a dock

Question 16

His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one

Answer 16

It was an hour of profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air

World centred around wealth

Question 17

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.

Answer 17

He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Because it couldn’t be over dreamed - that voice was a deathless song