Chap 7 Flashcards
Why he fired all his servants
“I wanted somebody who wouldn’t gossip. Daisy comes over quite often”
Daisy’s affair with G
“Age he left the room again she … kissed him on the mouth”
“You know I love you”
Hot tension
“It’s so hot”
Tom realisation
“He was Astounded”
Moon imagery
“Silver curve of the moon”
Daisy’s voice / why G wants her
“Her voice is full of money”
“Inexhaustible charm”
Reminder of Gs corruption/ tom passive aggressive / Tom in control
“You can buy anything at a frug store nowadays”
Dust imagery
“Dusty spot”
“Flurry of dust”
Myrtle jealous / sets up her death
“Jealous terror… Jordan barker, whom she took to be his wife”
Tom realising he is losing his wife and mistress
“His wife and mistress until an hour age secure … were slipping precipitately from his control”
Tom hypocrite
“Sit back and let me nobody from nowhere make love to your wife”
Gatsby denying past
“Your wife doesn’t love you… she’s never loved you. She loves me”
“She only married you because I was poor”
“Going on for 5 years and you didn’t know”
Tom doesn’t care / reality / shows impossible dream
“Oh - that’s all”
“I can’t speak about what happened 5 yeRs ago, because I didn’t know daisy then”
What G wants daisy to do
“Just tell him the truth- that you never loved him - and it’s all wiped out forever”
Erase past
G wants perfection but can not attain / dream has gone / daisy isn’t his dream anymore
“Oh you want too much!”
“I did love him once -but I loved you too”
G suffering
Worlds seemed to bite physically into G
Tom reminds us of gs corruption but also Daisy’s prestigious
“Common swindler who’d have to steal the ring he put on her”
Dream has gone
“The dead dream dough on … trying to touch what was no longer tangible”
Tom is confident that dream is over
“I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over”
Nick doesn’t care about his life
“I just remembered that today’s my birthday”
Tragic inevitability as daisy drives
“Drove on toward death through the cooling twiligh”
Wreckless nature of wealthy
“The death car.. didn’t stop”
Myrtle dead
Her death parallels death of dream
“Her life violently extinguished … and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust”
Gatsby takes blame
“But ofc I’ll say I was.”
Reminder then Tom and d are a couple
“Unmistakable air or natural intimacy about the picture, and anyone would have said that they were conspiring togther”
Dream dead but G sit looks for it / mistake
“Left him standing there in the moonlight watching over nothing”
