Gatsby Chapter Two Quotations

Question 1

The Valley of Ashes is described as:

Answer 1

‘A fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat’

Question 2

What is the air like in the VOA?

Answer 2

‘Powdery air’

Question 3

The ‘grey…crawl’

Answer 3

Cars

Question 4

How are the men in the VOA described?

Answer 4

‘Ash grey men’

Question 5

What is the VOA?

Answer 5

‘Dumping ground’

Question 6

How are the eyes of Dr.T.J Eckleburg described? x2

Answer 6

‘Blue and gigantic’

‘Enormous yellow spectacles’

Question 7

What is the very first impression we get of Myrtle?

Answer 7

‘Thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door’

Question 8

George Wilson:

Answer 8

‘Blonde, spiritless man’

Question 9

How does Nick say Myrtle carries her weight?

Answer 9

‘Carries her flesh sensuously’

Question 10

How is Myrtle the opposite of Daisy?

Answer 10

‘No facet or gleam of beauty’

Question 11

How is Myrtles confidence shown when she sees Tom?

Answer 11

‘Looking him flush in the eye’

Question 12

Myrtle has an ‘immediately perceptible … about her’

Answer 12

Vitality

Question 13

How is Myrtle and George’s unhappy relationship portrayed by Myrtles actions?

Answer 13

‘Walking through her husband as if he were a ghost’

Question 14

Myrtles snobbish and demanding personality/ facade to be like the wealthy:

Answer 14

‘She let four taxicabs drive away before she selected a new one’

Question 15

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)

Answer 15

Vitality
Remarkable
Converted

Question 16

Myrtle makes a comment about George in NY, suggesting her rude and ungrateful manner:

Answer 16

‘I thought he knew something about breeding but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe’

Question 17

How is Catherine, Myrtles sister, described? x2

Answer 17

‘Slender, worldly girl of about thirty’

‘Solid, sticky bob of red hair’

Question 18

Tom breaking Myrtles nose:

Answer 18

‘Broke her nose with his open hand’

Question 19

Myrtles is described ( after being punched by Tom )as ‘ the … figure on the coach, bleeding …’

Answer 19

Despairing

Fluently

Question 20

What rumour do we hear about Gatsby from Catherine?

Answer 20

‘They say he’s a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm’

Question 21

How is Nicks struggle to fit in with the crowd at Myrtle apartment in NY reflected?

Answer 21

‘I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life’

Question 22

Nick become a questionable/ unreliable narrator because he states that…

Answer 22

‘I have been drunk just twice in my life and the second time was that afternoon’