Gatsby - Chapter 5 Quotes Flashcards
Nick Carraway - on the clock
“Luckily the clock…”
“Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head”
Nick Carraway - on Gatsby
“five years next November”
“The automatic quality of Gatsby’s answer set us all back at least another minute.”
Nick Carraway - on Gatsby
“He hadn’t once ceased…”
He hadn’t once ceases looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in the house according to the measure of personae from her well-loved eyes.
Gatsby - to Daisy on the Green Light
“If it wasn’t for the…”
If it wasn’t for the midst we could see your home across the bay, you always huge a Green light that burns all night at the end of your dock
Gatsby - to Daisy on the Green Light
“Possibly it had …”
Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever
Now I was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.
Nick Carraway - on Gatsby
“Almost Five Years’ there must have been…
There must he 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.
Nick Carraway - on Gatsby
“Gatsby, pale as …
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.
