Chapter 5 quotes Flashcards
‘The flowers were unnecessary…
… for at 2 O’clock, greenhouse arrived from Gatsby’s, with innumerable receptacles to contain it’
‘The exhilarating…
… in her voice was a wild tonic in the rain’
‘Aware of the loud…
…beating of my own heart, I pulled the door to against the increasing rain’
‘Luckily, the clock…
…took a 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 that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or gesture of exultation, a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room’
’ “I’m glad Jay”…
… her voice full of aching, grieving beauty told only of her unexpected joy’
‘He hadn’t once ceased to look…
… at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well loved eyes. Sometimes too, he stared around at his own possessions in a dazed way, as though its astounding presence was no longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs’
’ “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” ‘
‘Now it was again a…
…green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one’
’ “Look at that”…
…she whispered, and then after a moment, “I’d like to just get in one of those pink clouds and push you around in it” ‘
‘There must’ve been moments…
… that afternoon where even Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own faults, but because the colossal vitality of his illusion’
‘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’
‘Then I went out…
…of the room and down the marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together’
