Gatsby Chapter Two Quotations Flashcards
The Valley of Ashes is described as:
‘A fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat’
What is the air like in the VOA?
‘Powdery air’
The ‘grey…crawl’
Cars
How are the men in the VOA described?
‘Ash grey men’
What is the VOA?
‘Dumping ground’
How are the eyes of Dr.T.J Eckleburg described? x2
‘Blue and gigantic’
‘Enormous yellow spectacles’
What is the very first impression we get of Myrtle?
‘Thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door’
George Wilson:
‘Blonde, spiritless man’
How does Nick say Myrtle carries her weight?
‘Carries her flesh sensuously’
How is Myrtle the opposite of Daisy?
‘No facet or gleam of beauty’
How is Myrtles confidence shown when she sees Tom?
‘Looking him flush in the eye’
Myrtle has an ‘immediately perceptible … about her’
Vitality
How is Myrtle and George’s unhappy relationship portrayed by Myrtles actions?
‘Walking through her husband as if he were a ghost’
Myrtles snobbish and demanding personality/ facade to be like the wealthy:
‘She let four taxicabs drive away before she selected a new one’
When Myrtle gets to New York what changes about her?
‘The intense … that had been so … in the garage was … into impressive hauteur’ (hauteur = acting as if you think you are better than others)
Vitality
Remarkable
Converted
Myrtle makes a comment about George in NY, suggesting her rude and ungrateful manner:
‘I thought he knew something about breeding but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe’
How is Catherine, Myrtles sister, described? x2
‘Slender, worldly girl of about thirty’
‘Solid, sticky bob of red hair’
Tom breaking Myrtles nose:
‘Broke her nose with his open hand’
Myrtles is described ( after being punched by Tom )as ‘ the … figure on the coach, bleeding …’
Despairing
Fluently
What rumour do we hear about Gatsby from Catherine?
‘They say he’s a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm’
How is Nicks struggle to fit in with the crowd at Myrtle apartment in NY reflected?
‘I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life’
Nick become a questionable/ unreliable narrator because he states that…
‘I have been drunk just twice in my life and the second time was that afternoon’
