chapter 4 Flashcards
how do gatsbys guests describe him
“he’s a bootlegger […] one time he killed a man who had found out he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. reach me a rose honey and pour me that last drop into that there crystal glass”
how is gatsbys car described
“it was rich cream colour, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat boxes and supper boxes and tool boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns”
how does gatsby talk about oxford
” he hurried the phrase “educated at oxford” or swallowed it or choked on it”
what quote shows corruption within the police force
“i was bale to do the commissar a favour once, and he sends me a christmas card every year”
how is the city seen from the bridge
” the city seen from the queensborough bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its forst wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world”
what suggests progress
“as we crossed Blackwell’s island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish Negroes”
how does jordan describe the officer(gatsby) tlaking to daisy
“the officer looked at daisy in the way every young girl wants to be looked at”
what shows toms ownership of daisy
“the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars”
“half an hour later when we walked put fot he room the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over”
what quote shows nick is lonly
“unlike Gatsby and tom buchanon i had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the the dark cornices and blinding signs and so drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms”
