gatsby quotes Flashcards
“I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.”
“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
“I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,” he said, nodding determinedly. “She’ll see.”
gatsby is determined to win daisy back so he will repeat the past to do so
“Your wife doesn’t love you,” said Gatsby. “She’s never loved you. She loves me.”
gatsby is exposing himself to tom about how him and daisy used to be a thing
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
nick was told to not judge people yet throughout the book thats all he seems to do
“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
Nick has firmly come down on Gatsby’s side in the conflict between the Buchanans and Gatsby.
‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
daisy believes that women have a useless role in this world and that men are the dominant beings
“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.
daisy cried over the shirts which shows that she loves materialistic things and values money
