Chapter 7 quotes Flashcards
‘It was when curiosity…
…about Gatsby was at its highest when the lights in his house failed to go one Saturday night - and, as obscurely as it had begun , his career as Trimalchio was over’
‘So the whole caravansary….
…had fallen in like a card house at the disapproval in her eyes’
‘That’s because your mother…
…wanted to show you off… you dream, you. You absolute little dream’
‘What we’ll do with…
…ourselves this afternoon, and the day after that, and the next thirty years?’
‘As Tom took up the receiver…
…the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn’s wedding march from the ballroom below’
’ “Your wife doesn’t…
…love you” said Gatsby, “She’s never loved you. She loves me” ‘
‘Only the dead dream fought…
…on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, towards that lost voice across the room’
‘Thirty - …
…the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair’
‘Her left breast swinging…
… loose like a flap… her mouth was wide open and ripped a little at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored for so long’
‘As though my presence…
…marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight- watching over nothing’
‘Her voice…
…is full of money’
