Gatsby Incomplete Quotes Flashcards
“always … forward”
“always leaning aggressively forward”
“so we … current … the past”
“so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”
“he stretched … water”
“he stretched out his arms toward the dark water”
“the mouth … choked … vitality … long”
“the mouth was wide open and ripped a little at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long”
“as he … grotesque … is”
“as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is”
“like that … gliding … trees”
“like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees”
“that fellow … threw … eyes … Daisy’s”
“that fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy’s”
” … careless …”
“they were careless people”
“they smashed … retreated … carelessness”
“they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or vast carelessness”
“his dream … close … grasp it”
“his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it”
“his count … by one”
“his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one”
“then it … aspired … delivered … womb … splendour”
“then it had not merely been the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered from the womb of his purposeless splendour”
“men … moths … stars”
“men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars”
“a fantastic … wheat … gardens”
“a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens”
“Myrtle … mingled … dust”
“Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust”
