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”
“Gatsby believed … future … eluded … matter”
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter now”
“it was … hope”
“it was an extraordinary gift for hope”
“it is … floated … dreams”
“it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams”
“it was … leverage … body”
“it was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body”
“possibly … colossal … forever”
“possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever”
” … movement … nose … hand”
“making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”
“spasms … dust”
“spasms of bleak dust”
“her left … listen … beneath”
“her left breast was swinging loose like a flap, and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath”
“so I walked .. nothing”
“so I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing”
“I don’t … loved him”
“I don’t think she ever loved him”
“he could … alone … pap … wonder”
“he could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder”
“there must … tumbled … colossal … everything”
“there must have been moments, even the afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusions. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything”
“she vanished … nothing … was all”
“she vanished into her rich house, into her rich full life, leaving Gatsby - nothing. He felt married to her, that was all”
“paid … single dream”
“paid a high price for living too long with a single dream”
“let other … mess … made”
“let other people clean up the mess they had made”
“oh you … enough”
“oh you want too much, I love you now isn’t that enough”
“I loved … now”
“I loved him then but I love you now”
“can’t repeat … you can”
“can’t repeat the past? he cried incredulously, why of course you can”
“no amount … challenge … heart”
“no amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart”
“rather … and … manner”
“rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner”
“regarding … stars”
“regarding the silver pepper of the stars”
