Gatsby - Quotes Flashcards
Daisy “I hope she’ll be a fool-
That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
Gatsby’s nickname for others
“Old Sport”
Chapter 5 “he was running down
Like an overwound clock”
Chapter 6 - Gatsby “Can’t repeat the past?
Why of course you can!”
Chapter 7 - Gatsby “Your wife doesn’t love you.
She never loved you. She loves me”
Chapter 9 - Nick Carraway “Gatsby believed
In the green light”
Chapter 2 - “Making a short, deft movement…
Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”
Chapter 9 - Tom “He ran over Myrtle like you’d
Run over a dog and he never even stopped his car”
Chapter 3 - Nick “I am one of the few…
Honest people that I have ever known.
Chapter 7 - Gatsby “Her voice is
Full of money”
Chapter 2 - Nick (About George Wilson) “He was a blond…
Spiritless man, anaemic, and fairly handsome. When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes.”
Chapter 1 - Nick (Description of Myrtle) “She was in the middle thirties…
And fairly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.”
Chapter 1 - Nick (Describing Myrtle) “She smiled slowly…
And wall king through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom”
Chapter 1 - Nick (On George Wilson) “ “mingling immediately
With the cement colour of the walls”
Chapter 2 - Myrtle Wilson (About her husband) “I knew right away I made a mistake.
He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in, and never told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out…I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried…all afternoon.”
