Chapter 2 quotes Flashcards
‘A certain…
…desolate area of land’
‘A fantastic farm…
…where ashes grow like wheat… into grotesque gardens where ash grey men who move dimly and already crumbling’
‘The grey land…
…and spasms of bleak dust’
‘He was a blonde…
…spiritless man, anaemic and faintly handsome […] a damp gleam of hope sprang into his eyes’
‘She was in the middle thirties…
…she carried her flesh as sensuously as some women can’
‘There was an immediate…
…perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continuously smouldering’
‘Walking through her…
…husband as if he were a ghost’
‘Mrs Wilson sat discreetly…
…in another car. Tom Buchannan deferred much to the sensibilities of those East Eggers who many be on the train’
‘At the news stand…
…she bought a copy of Town Tattle, and a moving pictures magazine, and in the station drug-store, some cold cream and a small flask of perfume […] I want to get one of those dogs’
‘Warm and soft…
…almost pastoral on a summer Sunday afternoon’
‘The cab stopped at one…
… slice in along white cake of apartment houses’
‘Mrs Wilson had changed…
…[…] a cream coloured chiffon […] With the influence of the dress […] the intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into an impressive hauteur’
‘Her laughter, her gestures,…
…her assertations became more violently affected by the moment, and she expanded as the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot’
’ “I knew something…
…was up, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe […] he borrowed somebody else’s best suit to get married in and never even told me about it” ‘
‘I became entangled…
… in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, to my chair’
