chapter 3 quotes Flashcards
Gatsby’s gardens at the party
‘in his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars’- people attracted to wealth. colour symbolism and blue sort of the feeling of not really being there
the servants
‘And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops scrubbing brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before’ - shows extent of the party, conspicuous consumption
the bar
The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permit the garden outside, until the air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot , and enthusiastic meetings between woman, who never knew each other’s name’
- the facade of the 1920s how superficial it was. lack of real connection, people just there fir a good time.
nick being invited
‘actually been invited. a chauffeur in a uniform of robins-egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note.[…]- find Jay Gatsby, in an elegant hand.’ contrast between the formality of the note and the wildness of the party.
owl eyed man
‘Absolutely real—have pages and everything.[…] This fella’s a regular Belasco.’” - comparison to famous producer who created ultra real sets, Gatsby creating an illusion of this certain lifestyle when he really has no care for it and its all to achieve daisy.
by midnight…
“By midnight the hilarity had increased. A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian, and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz, and between the numbers people were doing “stunts” all over the garden, while happy, vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky. “
nicks discussion with Gatsby
“We talked for a moment about some wet, grey little villages in France. Evidently he lived in this vicinity, for he told me that he had just bought a hydroplane, and was going to try it out in the morning.
‘Want to go with me, old sport? Just near the shore along the Sound.’”
-post war generation, the common ground between nick and Gatsby.
- the transactional nature of Gatsby forming relationships
-theme of wealth and technology
gatsbys smile
“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it.”
-his smile characterises the American dream and is emblematic of the American Dream
the man
‘an elegant young roughneck’
drunk lady at piano
“She had drunk a quantity of champagne, and during the course of her song she had decided, ineptly, that everything was very, very sad—she was not only singing, she was weeping too.”
-the facade , the party is masking the discontent within society
who is on the phone to Gatsby
‘Philadelphia wants you on the phone, sir.’
-Gatsby is always doing or engaging in criminal work, he can’t escape it
the car crash
“Back out,” he suggested after a moment. “Put her in reverse.”
“But the wheel’s off!”
-forshadowing the later crash
-danger of irresponsible people and new technology
nicks new opinion of New York
“I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night”
- new Yorks progressive exiting new nightlife
isolation
“At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes.”
-ambiguity of typical modernist writng
-facade!!
jordans driving
“You’re a rotten driver”
-selfish actions of people
-carless attitude
-moral decrepitude of the rich in 1920s society
