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Quote that shows Nicks narrative, sets up potential relationship with Gatsby, and shows unreliable narration

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‘I’m inclined to reserve all judgements’
‘reserving judgments is a matter of hope’

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‘It is what preyed on Gatsby…

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… what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams’

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‘When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that…

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…I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever’

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Shows Nicks admiration for Gatsby and contrasts his ‘reserving judgements

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Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.’

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Nick talking about West Egg and the difference between West and East egg

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‘I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them’

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Nicks description of Gatsby’s house

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‘A colossal affair by any standard’
‘Factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville’

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Nick’s description of houses on East Egg

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‘The white houses of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water’

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Nicks description of Toms connection to football

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‘I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game’

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Nicks description on the Buchanans house

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‘A cheerful red and white colonial mansion’

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Nicks description of Tom Buchanans body

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‘It was a body capable of enormous leverage- a cruel body’

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‘Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it,

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bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth’

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“I always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it.

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“What’ll we plan?” She turned to me hopelessly: “What do people plan?”

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‘I’m glad its a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool - thats

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the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’

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Nicks description of his feeling as he drives away from the Buchanans after finding out about Toms affair

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‘I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away’

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valley of ashes
‘A certain…

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…desolate area of land’

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valley of ashes
‘A fantastic farm…

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…where ashes grow like wheat…into grotesque gardens where ash-grey men who move dimly and are already crumbling’

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He was a blonde, spiritless…

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…man, anaemic, and faintly handsome […] a damp gleam of hope sprang into his eyes’

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myrtle
‘She was in the middle…

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….thirties[…] she carries her flesh sensuously as some women can’

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myrtle
‘There was an immediately perceptible…

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…vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering’

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myrtle
‘Walking through her…

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…husband as if he were a ghost’

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‘Mrs Wilson sat discreetly…

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…in another car. Tom deferred that much to the sensibilities of those East Eggers who might be on the train’

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‘The cab stopped at…

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…one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses’

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Mrs Wilson had changed[…]…

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…cream coloured chiffon[…] with the influence of the dress […] the intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive harteur’

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‘Her laughter, her gestures…

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…her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment, and as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy creaking pivot.

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‘simultaneously enchanted and

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repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life’

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‘Making a short deft movement…

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…Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand’

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‘I was standing beside his bed…

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…and he was sitting up between the sheets, clad in his underwear’

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‘In his blue gardens men and girls…

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…came and went like moths along the whisperings and the champagne and the stars’

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‘And on mondays eight…

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…servants, including an extra gardener toiled all day with mops and scrubbing brushes and hammers and garden shears, repairing the ravages of the night before’

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casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic

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meeting between women who never knew each others names’

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surprisingly formal note […] -

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signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand.’

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‘absolutely real…

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…-have pages and everything.[…] This fella’s a regular Belasco’

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‘by midnight…

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…the hilarity had increased. A celebrated tenor sung in Italian, and a notorious contralto had sung in jazz, and between the numbers people were doing ‘stunts’ all over the garden’

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‘we talked for a moment about some…

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…wet, grey little villages in France.’

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gatsby
‘It was one of those rare…

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…smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it’

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‘during the course of her song she had decided, ineptly, that everything was sad, very

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sad-she was not only singing, she was weeping too’

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‘I began to like New York…

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…the racy, adventurous feel of it at night’

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‘at the enchanted metropolitan….

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…twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes’

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jordan
‘I am one of the few honest…

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…people that I have ever known’

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‘He’s a bootlegger’ […] ‘One time he…

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…killed a man who found out that he was nephew to von Hidenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a drop into that there crystal glass’

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‘He was never quite still; there was always…

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…a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand’

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gatsby’s car
‘It was a rich cream colour, bright with…

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…nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns’

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‘he hurried the phrase…

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…educated at Oxford,’ or swallowed it or choked on it as though it had bothered him before’

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gatsby’s stories
‘then it was all true. I saw…

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…the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawing of his broken heart’

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‘I was able to do a commissioners a favour…

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…once, and he sends me a Christmas card every year’

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‘As we crossed Blackwell’s Island…

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…a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish Negroes, two bucks and a girl’

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‘Finest specimens of human molars’…

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‘Meyer Wolfshiem? No he’s a gambler.’Gatsby hesitated, then added cooly: ‘He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.’

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‘The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking…

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…in a way that very young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me i have remembered to incident ever since.’

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‘The day before the wedding he gave her…

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…a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars’

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‘Tom ran into a wagon on the Ventura road one night…

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…and ripped the front wheel off his car. The girl who was with his got into the papers too because her arm was broken-she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara hotel.’

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‘Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodies face floated…

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…along the dark cornices and blinding signs so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms’

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‘the exhilarating ripple of her voice was

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a wild tonic in the rain’

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‘the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon

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he turned and caught it with trembling fingers, and set it back in place.’

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‘But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He

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literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.’

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‘I’m glad Jay.’ Her throat, full of

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aching, grieving, beauty told only of her unexpected joy.’

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‘He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of

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response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes too, he started around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs.’

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‘They’re such beautiful

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shirts’, she sobbed.’

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’ His count of

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enchanted objects had diminished by one.’

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‘There must have been moments that afternoon when Daisy tumbled

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short of his dreams-not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion’

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‘I think that the voice held him most, with its

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fluctuating, feverish warmth because it couldn’t be over-dreamed - that voice was a deathless song’

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‘Then I went out of the room and down the marble steps into the rain,

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leaving them there together.’

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‘his parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people-his

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imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all’

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‘But his heart was in a constant turbulent riot. The

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most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night.’

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‘a promise that the rock

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of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing.’

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‘To the young Gatz, resting on his oars and looking up

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at the railed deck, the yacht represented all of the beauty and and glamour in the world.’

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‘i haven’t got a horse’ said Gatsby. ‘I used to ride

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in the army but I’ve never bought a horse. I’ll follow you in my car.’

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‘He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should

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go to Tom and say ‘I never loved you’ […] after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house - just as it were five years ago.

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‘He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolated path of fruit rinds and discarded favours

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[…]’Can’t repeat the past? he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!

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‘Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she

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blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.’

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‘his career as

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Trimalchio was over’

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‘the whole caravansary had fallen like

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a card house at the disapproval in her eyes’

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‘the next day was broiling, almost the last,

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certainly the warmest, of the summer’

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‘afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise.

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I don’t think think he had ever really believed in its existence before’

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‘you resemble the advertisement of the man’ she went on innocently

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‘you know the advertisement of the man’

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‘her voice is full of money’ he said suddenly […] That was it. I’d never understood before.

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It was full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals song of it…’

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‘I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let

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Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife’

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‘she only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me.

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It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me!’

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‘And whats more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off in a spree and make fun of myself,

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but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time.’

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‘Oh you want too much!’ she cried to Gatsby

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I love you now-isn’t that enough? I can’t help whats past.’ She began to sob helplessly. ‘I id love him once- but I loved you too’

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‘Certainly not for a common swindler who’d have to

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steal the ring he put on her finger’

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Thirty- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know,

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a thinning brief case of enthusiasm, thinning hair’

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‘I’ve got my wife locked up in there,’ explained Wilson calmly.

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‘She’s going to stay there till the day after tomorrow and then we’re going away’

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‘when the had torn open her shirtwaist still damp with persperation, they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap and

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there was no need to listen for her heart beneath. The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.’

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‘but of course

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I’ll say I was’

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‘There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about

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the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.’

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‘I want to wait here till Daisy goes to bed. Good night old sport.’ […] He out his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to the scrutiny of the house, as though my presence

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marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.’

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“Why, my God, they used to

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go there by the hundreds”

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“I gathered that he wanted to recover something. Some

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idea of himself that had gone into loving Daisy.”

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“He broke off and began to walk down a desolate path of

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fruit rinds and discarded favours and crushed flowers”

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description of Daisy running over Myrtle

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“killed instantly”
“ it ripped her open”

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what does Wolfsheim say about Gatsby’s death + funeral

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“I can’t get mixed up in it”

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“the East was haunted for me like

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that, distorted beyond my eyes’ power of correction”

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Nicks description of his feelings for Jordan at the end of the novel

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“half in love with her”

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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed

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up things and and creatures then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness […] and let other people clean up the mess they had made”

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“So we beat on, boats

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against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”

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“he stretched out his arms toward

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the dark water”
“I could have sworn he was trembling”

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