chapter 5 quotes Flashcards
the flowers were…
‘the flowers were unnecessary, for at two o’clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsbys with innumerable receptacles to contain it.’
Daisys voice
‘the exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain’.
nicks empathising with gatsby
‘aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door against the increasing rain’.
the clock tilting
‘luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in place.’
but there was a change in Gatsby…
‘but there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; and a new wellbeing radiated from him and filled the little room.
Daisys voice … again
“‘I’m glad Jay,’ her throat full of aching, grieving, beauty - told only of her unexpected joy.”
he hadn’t once ceased looking…
‘he hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in the house according to the look it drew from her well love eyes, sometimes to he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as thoughein her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. once he dealt toppled down a flight of stairs..
The shirts
“They’re such beautiful shirts’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘it makes me sad because I’ve never seen such-such beautiful shirts before.’”
the green light
‘now it was again a green light on the dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.’
pink clouds
‘look at that’ she whispered and then after a moment: ‘I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.’
There must have been moments even…
‘there must have been moments even the afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.’
I think that voice held…
‘I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over dreamed- that voice was a deathless song.
nick leaving
‘then went out of the room and down the marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together.’
