chapter 6 quotes Flashcards
Gatsbys name
‘James Katz - that was really, or at least legally , his name […] I suppose he’s had that name for a long time, even then’.
-mystery surrounding Gatsby
gatsbys parents
‘His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents al all’
but his heart was…
but bis heat was in a constant turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night’.
-gatbys unrestful, always achieving nature
gatsbys early jobs
‘he stayed there for two weeks, dismayed at its ferocious indifference to the drums of his destiny, to destiny itself, and despising the janitors work with which he was to pay his was through’
Gatsby has fooled himself into only seeing the good things in people and life.
‘a promise that the rock of the world was founded on a fairy wing’
how Gatsby inherited money
And it was from Cody that he inherited money, a legacy of $25,000. He didn’t get it. He never understood the legal device that was used against him, but what remains of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye.
Gatsby’s failure at European culture
‘I haven’t bought a horse’ said Gatsby, ‘i used to ride in the army, but I’ve never bought a horse. I’ll have to follow you in my car.’
what did the yatch represent????
Do the young gatz, resting on his oars and looking up at the Railed deck, the yacht represented all of the beauty and glamour in the world.’
Tom and I shook hands…
Tom and I shook hands, the rest of us exchanged a call nod and they trotted quickly down the drive, disappearing under the August foliage, just as Gatsby with hat and light overcoat in hand came out the front door.
but the rest…
‘but the rest offended her […] she saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand’
-daisy
what gatsby wanted daisy to say
‘he wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say ‘I never loved you’[…] after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house- just as if it were five years ago.’
-gatsbys desire to turn back time (the clock)
Gatsbys in denial about not being able to repeat the past
He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favours and crushed flowers. ‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’
Gates about kissing daisy
‘he knew that when he kissed this girl and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.’
-the attachment of gatsbys American Dream to daisy
-daisys voice again, siren like
Gatsby KISSING daisy
‘then he kissed her. at his lips, touch she blossomed for him like a flower in the incarnation was complete’.
-biblical imagery
-daisy gave life to gatsbys and gave his real purpose
