Chap 9 Quotes Flashcards

1
Q

Bundled up in a long cheap Ulster

A

His eyes leaving isolated and unpunctual tears

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2
Q

Study electricity, etc
Work
Baseball and spots

List of how to be perfect

A

Nobody came

Isolation

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3
Q

Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower

A

It was all very careless and confused.

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4
Q

They were careless people, Tom and daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast care

A

Let other people clean up the mess they had made …

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5
Q

I shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to, for I felt suddenly as though I was talking to a child

A

Incoherent failure of a house

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6
Q

Capacity for wonder

A

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.

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7
Q

Gatsby believed in the green light and the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us

A

It eluded is then, but that’s no matter - to-morrow we will run faster stretch out our arms farther

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8
Q

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past

A

Greatest of all human dreams

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