Chapter 9 Flashcards
‘she and Tom had gone away…
‘she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them.
‘but neither a wire nor Mr. Wolfshiem arrived, no one arrived except…
‘but neither a wire nor Mr. Wolfshiem arrived, no one arrived except more police and photographers and newspaper men.
‘Daisy hadn’t sent a…
‘Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower.’
“The poor son…
“The poor son-of-a-bitch, he said.’
‘He threw dust into your eyes…
‘He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy’s’
‘……..and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other…..
‘They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made’
‘huge incoherent …
‘huge incoherent failure of a house’
‘He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close…’
‘He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.’
‘Gatsby believed in…
‘Gatsby believed in the green light,’
‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne…
‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’
