gatsby quotes

Question 1

name 3 quotes from gatsbys first meeting with daisy

Answer 1

‘white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold coloured tie’
‘pale’
‘dark signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes’

Question 2

name 3 quotes about the green light

Answer 2

‘single green light, minute and far away’
‘stretching his arms out in a curious way’
‘possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light that had now vanished forever’

Question 3

name 3 quotes about Gatsby pursuit of daisy

Answer 3

‘you always have a single green light which burns at the end of your dock’
‘his count of enchanting objects had diminished by one ‘
‘she’s never loved you she loves me’

Question 4

2 quotes for gatsby= personification of the american dream

Answer 4

‘they cant get him old sport, hes a smart man’
‘simply the proprietor of an elaborate roadhouse’

Question 5

3 quotes for gatsby seeing daisy as the ultimate dream

Answer 5

‘his count of enchanting objects had diminished by one’
‘shes never loved you, she loves me’
‘committing himself to the following of a holy grail’

Question 6

2 quotes about myrtle being the female equivalent of the american dream

Answer 6

‘the interior was unprosperous and bare’
‘he discovered that myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world’

Question 7

3 quotes about the valley of ashes representing the downfall of the american dream

Answer 7

‘dismal’
‘grey’
‘the eyes of dr t j eckleberg blue and gigantic… brood over the sollemn dumping ground’