Chapter 8 quotes Flashcards
‘I tossed half-sick…
… between grotesque reality and a savage frightening of dreams’
‘I felt that I had…
…something to tell him, something to warn him about and morning would be too late’
‘There was an inexplicable…
…amount of dust everywhere’
‘He couldn’t possibly leave…
… Daisy until he knew what she was going to do. He was clutching and some last hope and I couldn’t bear to set him free’
‘It excited him…
…too, that many men had loved Daisy. It increased her value in his eyes’
‘For Daisy was young…
… and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of line in new tunes’
’ “They’re a rotten crowd”…
… I shouted, “You’re worth the damn bunch put together” I’ve always been glad I said that’
‘There was not enough…
…of him for his wife’
‘Wilson’s gaze…
…turned out to the ashheaps’
‘I had an idea that Gatsby…
…himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true, he must have felt he had lost the old warm world, paid a huge price for living too long with a single dream’
‘It was after we…
…started with Gatsby towards the house that the Gardner saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete’
