chapter 8 quotes Flashcards
Gatsby and his staff have stopped caring, it is stagnant. Gatsby is slowly getting further and further away and out of grasp. The facade is slowly crumbling and it cannot end wel
There was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere,’
Gatsby could bear to leave daisy
‘He couldn’t possibly leave Daisy until he knew what she was going to do. He was clutching at some last hope and I couldn’t bear to shake him free.’
daisy above the struggles of the poor
‘Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.’
rotten crowd
They’re a rotten crowd,’ I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the damn bunch put together.’ I’ve always been glad I said that.’
He confuses the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg and God - all seeing and watching over what is left - which isn’t very much. The eyes are a symbol of what can be hidden and what cannot. Affairs eventually come to light. True background and means are unveiled - there is no such thing as secrecy.
‘God knows what you’ve been doing, everything you’ve been doing. You may fool me, but you can’t fool God!’ Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg,’
at two o’clock
At two o’clock Gatsby put on his bathing suit and left word with the butler that if anyone phoned word was to be brought to him at the pool.’
-still hoping that daisy would call
Gatsby paid a price
‘paid a huge price for living too long with a single dream.’
seeing wilsoms body
It was after we started with Gatsby towards the house that the gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete.’
