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
