Dreams, memory and the past Flashcards
Nick describes Gatsby’s behaviour when he is reunited with Daisy
“Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.”
Nick describes Gatsby watching Daisy in his house
“Sometimes too he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs.”
The end of Gatsby’s dream
“Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever…
Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.”
Nick describes the magnitude of Gatsby’s illusion
“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything.”
