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Nick Carraway
“I’m inclined to reserve all judgements“
“ I graduated from New Haven in 1915“
“I decided to go East and learn the bond business “
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life “ 
“I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as it with ropes, into my chair “
Daisy Buchanan
“She laughed, and I laughed too.“
“Her face was sad and lovely. “
“That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great big, hulking, physical specimen”
“I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything“
“Sophisticated – God, I’m sophisticated“
“Did they miss me? “
“How gorgeous! Let’s go back, Tom. Tomorrow!”
Tom Buchanan
“Men at New Haven who had hated his guts”
“A cruel body” that was “capable of enormous leverage”
“I’ve got a nice place here “
“Wedging his arm imperatively under mine” “as though he were moving a checker to another square“
“Civilisation’s going to pieces“
“If we don’t look out the white race will be- will be totally submerged”
“ it’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things”
“ I wanted to meet my girl “
“ Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand “
Jordan Baker
“ she was a slender, small, breasted girl”
“ throwing her body backward at the shoulders, like a young cadet”
“ Her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened”
Myrtle Wilson
“He wasn’t fit to lick my shoe”
“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman”
Jay Gatsby
“Trembling”
