Chapter 9 quotes Flashcards
1
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‘Gatsby believed…
A
… in the green light’
2
Q
‘They were careless…
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… people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their cast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clear up the mess they had made’
3
Q
‘I was responsible…
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… because no one else was interested’
4
Q
‘Tom and Gatsby…
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… Daisy and Jordan and I were all westerners and perhaps we possess something in common which made us subtly unadaptable to eastern life’
5
Q
‘After Gatsby’s death…
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… the east was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eye’s power of correction. So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line, I decided to come back home’
