Chapter 6 quotes Flashcards
‘He had changed…
…it at the age of 17 and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his new career- when he saw Dan Cody’s yaught drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior’
‘The truth was that Jay…
…Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God- a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that- and if was to be about his father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar meretricious beauty’
‘But his heart was in…
…constant, turbulent riot… a universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out of his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand’
“My God, I believe…
… the man’s coming. Doesn’t he know she doesn’t want him?”
“I wonder where in…
…the devil he met Daisy. By God, I may be old fashioned in my ideas but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish”
‘Tom was evidently perturbed…
…by Daisy running around alone, for on the following Saturday night he came with her to Gatsby’s party. Perhaps his presence gave the evening a peculiar quality of oppressiveness’
‘I felt an unpleasantness…
…in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn’t been there before. Or perhaps I merely got used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own standards and own great figures’
“She didn’t like…
…it. She didn’t have a good time. I feel far away from her. Its hard to make her understand”
‘He wanted nothing less…
…of Daisy that she should go to Tom and say “I never loved you” ‘
’ “Can’t repeat the past”…
… he replied incredulously, “Why, Of course you can!” ‘
