Chapter 4 quotes Flashcards
’ “He’s a bootlegger…
… one time he killed a man who found out he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey and pour me a last drop into that there crystal glass” ‘
‘He was never quite…
… still; there was always a tapping of a foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand’
‘It was a 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 thousand suns’
‘He hurried the phrase…
…“educated at Oxford” or swallowed it or choked on it as though it had bothered him before’
“I was able to do…
… to commissioner a favour once. He sends me a Christmas card every year”
‘The city seen from the…
…Queensboro’ bridge is always the city seen from the first time in its first wild promise of all the beauty and mystery of the world’
‘As we passed Blackwells’…
… Island, a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffer, in which sat three modish negros, two bucks and a girl’
“He’s the man who…
… fixed the world series back in 1919’
‘The officer looked at…
…Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girls wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since’
‘The day before…
… the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred an fifty thousand dollars’
‘The girl who was with him got…
… into the papers too because her arm was broken- she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa-Barbra hotel’
‘Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchannan…
…I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms’
