Gatsby Chapter Three Quotations Flashcards
How are the men and women attending Gatsby’s party described?
‘Like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars’
How is Gatsby’s Rolls Royce described?
‘Like a brisk yellow bug’
‘Two hundred oranges’ are juiced in half and hour if…
‘if a little button was pressed by two hundred times by a butlers thumb’
How are the hams described on the buffet table?
‘Spiced baked hams’
‘Salads of …
…harlequin designs’
What food is ‘bewitched to a dark gold’?
‘Pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold’
What quotation describes the orchestra?
‘Oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums’
Where is the colour yellow used?
‘Yellow cocktail music’
How is the amount of people at the party depicted?
‘Sea change of faces and voices and colour’
What is surprising to Nick?
He was ‘one of the few guests who had actually been invited’
How is the chaos of the party portrayed?
‘Rules of behaviour associated with and amusement park’
What is one of the rumours a girl says about Gatsby?
‘He killed a man once’
What does Lucille argue is the truth about Gatsby?
‘He was a German soy during the war’
How is Gatsby’s library described?
‘High gothic library’
How is Owl Eyes described by Nick?
‘A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles
What shocks Owl Eyes in Gatsby’s library?
The books are ‘absolutely real’
‘I thought they’d be a nice durable cardboard’
How does Nick describe Gatsby’s smile?
‘It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it’
Gatsby is an ‘elegant …
…young roughneck’
What suggests that Gatsby is hiding his true self?
’He was picking his words with care’
‘No one swooned backward on Gatsby’
What does thus suggest about Gatsby?
He separates himself from the guests/doesn’t fit in
How does Jordan wear her dresses?
‘She wore her evening-dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes
When Owl Eyes’ car is crashed at the end of chapter three, which quotation foreshadows Myrtles death?
‘You don’t understand … I wasn’t driving.’
How is NYC depicted at the end of chapter 3?
‘Racy, adventurous’
How does Nick describe his feelings towards Jordan?
‘I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity’
What is Gatsby’s commonly used phrase?
‘Old sport’
What is Jordan?
‘Incurable dishonest’
How does Nick describe himself?
‘I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known’
