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Gatsby quotes Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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“Tom’s got some woman in New York”

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Jordan reveals Tom’s affair

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“low thrilling voice”
“bright passionate mouth”
“full of money”

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Descriptions of Daisy’s voice

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“I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”

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Daisy about her daughter Pammy
Zelda F said this in real life

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“flutter of a dress and the crunch of leather boots”

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Daisy and Tom return to table - gender

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“bantering inconsequence”

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description of Daisy and Jordan talking to eachother

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“a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body”

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Description of Tom

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West Egg is “the least fashionable of the two”

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Nick describing West vs East egg

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8
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“Everything for which I have unaffected scorn”

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What Gatsbsy represents to Nick

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“Making a short, deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose”

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Tom hits Myrtle

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“Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair at the shiftlessness of the lower orders”

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Myrtle’s despair over lower classes

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Myrtle reads “Town Tattle”

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A real scandal magazine

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“an immediately perceptibly vitality”
“continually smouldering”
“carried her flesh sensuously”

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Description of Myrtle

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“The eyes of Dr T J Eckleburg are blue and gigantic”

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Nick describes the advert

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“ashes grow like wheat”

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Valley of Ashes description

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Owl Eyes had been drunk “about a week”

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When Nick and Jordan find him in the library

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NYC is “racy” and “adventurous”

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Nick describes NYC

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“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy”

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Jordan Baker on parties

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Rumours about Gatsby

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killed a man, german spy during war, american soldier, oxford man, “cousin of Kaiser Wilhem’s”, “second cousin to the devil”

19
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“in the ditch rested a new coupe”

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Owl Eyes crashes the car

20
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“hair bobbed in strange new ways”

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Women’s hair at Gatsby’s party

21
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“So that Daisy would be just across the bay”

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Why Gatsby bought his house

22
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“A limousine driven by a white chauffeur with 3 black people in the back”

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Cars that pass on the way to NYC

23
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“a string of pearls valued at $350 000”

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Tom’s gift to Daisy on their wedding night

24
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“all built with a wish out of nonolfactory money”

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description of NYC
made from hard work

25
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“the colossal vitality of his illusion”

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Gatsby’s illusion

26
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“he literally glowed”

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Gatsby when talking to Daisy

27
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“his count of enchanted objects had diminished by 1”

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Gatsby no longer finds green light enchanting after seeing Daisy

28
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“He revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes”

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Gatsby reassesses his house based on Daisy

29
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“began to cry stormily…. I’ve never seen such beautiful shirts before”

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Daisy reacts to Gatsby’s shirts

30
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“the exhilarating ripple of her voice”

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Daisy’s voice`

31
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“Women run around too much these days for my liking”

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Tom’s opinion on women

32
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“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”

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Gatsby on the past

33
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“he was his wife’s man and not his own”

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Describing George Wilson

34
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“I did love him once - but I loved you too”

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Daisy on love in the hotel

35
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“She never loved you. She loves me”

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Gatsby to Tom in the hotel

36
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“a common swindler”

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Tom calls Gatsby

37
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“her left breast was swinging loose like a flap”

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Myrtle’s death

38
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“Mr Nobody from Nowhere”

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Tom calls Gatsby

39
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“paid a high price for living too long with a single dream”

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Gatsby’s death

40
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“the chauffeur heard the shots”

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Gatsby’s death

41
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“You may fool me, but you can’t fool God”

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George Wilson recounts what he said to Myrtle

42
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“Gatsby believed in the green light”

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Symbolic of his dream

43
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“his grief began to be mixed with an awed pride”

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Gatsby’s father, Henry Gatz, after G’s death

44
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“grotesque, circumstantial, eager, untrue”

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Reports about Gatsby’s death

English Lit A Level - The Great Gatsby (3 decks)

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