Chapter 2 Flashcards
Valley of ashes
“This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens”
Ash-grey men
“Ash-grey men, who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air”
Eyes of TJ Eckleburg
“But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you pet over, after a moment, they eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg”
Spectacles
“A pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose”
Paintless days
“His eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground”
George
“He was a blond, spiritless man, anaemia, and faintly handsome”
Ghost
“Walking through her husband as if he were a ghost”
Dogs
“Here’s your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it”
Laughter and gestures
“Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment”
Kaiser Wilhelm
“Well they say he’s a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelms. That’s where all his money comes from”
Breeding
“I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe”
Inexhaustible variety of life
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life”
Open hand
“Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”
