Gatsby Chapter 3 Flashcards
‘In his __ gardens men and girls came like __ among the __ and the champagne and the __.’
‘In his BLUE gardens men and girls came like MOTHS among the WHISPERINGS and the champagne and the STARS.’
‘__ one of these __ in __ opal, seizes a __ out of the air.’
‘SUDDENLY one of these GYPSIES in TREMBLING opal, seizes a COCKTAIL out of the air.’
‘People were not __ - __ __ __.’
‘People were not INVITED - THEY WENT THERE.’
‘they __ themselves according to the __ of __ associated with __ __.’
‘they CONDUCTED themselves according to the RULES of BEHAVIOUR associated with AMUSEMENT PARKS.’
‘I had been __ __.’
‘I had been ACTUALLY INVITED.’
‘__ Jay Gatsby in a __ hand.’
‘SIGNED Jay Gatsby in a MAJESTIC hand.’
‘A tray of __ __ at us through the __.’
‘A tray of COCKTAILS FLOATED at us through the TWILIGHT.’
‘I like to come,’ __ said. ‘I never __ __ I do, so I always __ a __ __.’
‘I like to come,’ LUCILLE said. ‘I never CARE WHAT I do, so I always HAVE a GOOD TIME.’
‘Somebody told me they __ __ __ __ __ __.’
‘Somebody told me they THOUGHT HE KILLED A MAN ONCE.’
‘It’s more that he was a __ __ during the war.’
‘It’s more that he was a GERMAN SPY during the war.’
‘I’ll be he __ a man.’
‘I’ll be he KILLED a man.’
‘Absolutely real - have __ and everything. I thought they’d be a nice __ __. Matter of a fact, they’re absolutely __.’
‘Absolutely real - have PAGES and everything. I thought they’d be a nice DURABLE CARDBOARD. Matter of a fact, they’re absolutely REAL.’
‘It was one of those __ smiles with a quality of eternal __ in it.’
‘It was one of those RARE smiles with a quality of eternal REASSURANCE in it.’
‘It __ you just so far as you wanted to be __, __ in you as you would like to __ in yourself and assured that it had precisely the __ of you that, at your __, you __ to convey.’
‘It UNDERSTOOD you just so far as you wanted to be UNDERSTOOD, BELIEVED in you as you would like to BELIEVE in yourself and assured that it had precisely the IMPRESSION of you that, at your BEST, you HOPED to convey.’
‘Precisely at that point it __ - and I was looking at an __ __ rough-neck, a year or two over __, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being __.’
‘Precisely at that point it VANISHED - and I was looking at an ELEGANT YOUNG rough-neck, a year or two over THIRTY, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being ABSURD.’
