Gatsby Quotes Flashcards
“”I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him…Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us.”
“Romantic readiness…”and a “heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.”
“… he stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and…a single green light, that might have been the end of the dock.”
“…he was trembling”
“Factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy..”
“Come outside,” he suggested to Gatsby, “I’d like you to have a look at the place.”
“I’m right across from you.”
“She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded…and he looked at Gatsby, and then back at Daisy as if he had just recognised her as someone he knew a long time ago.”
“Bootlegger… [who] sold grain alcohol over the counter.”
“Unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anyone would have said that they were conspiring together.”
“What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy’s but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car.”
west egg = new money, east egg = old money
