Chap 9 Quotes Flashcards
Bundled up in a long cheap Ulster
His eyes leaving isolated and unpunctual tears
Study electricity, etc
Work
Baseball and spots
List of how to be perfect
Nobody came
Isolation
Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower
It was all very careless and confused.
They were careless people, Tom and daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast care
Let other people clean up the mess they had made …
I shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to, for I felt suddenly as though I was talking to a child
Incoherent failure of a house
Capacity for wonder
He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
Gatsby believed in the green light and the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us
It eluded is then, but that’s no matter - to-morrow we will run faster stretch out our arms farther
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
Greatest of all human dreams