Gatsby quotes Flashcards
enchanted objects
‘his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.’
Gatsby’s resolves
‘always had some resolves like this or something’
romantic Nick
‘for a moment i thought i loved her.’
Myrtle’s living room
‘set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it’
Gatsby’s parents
‘his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.’
Wilson
‘blond, spiritless man, anaemic and faintly handsome.’
Can’t repeat the past…
“Why of course you can!”
Gatsy’s smile
‘one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance.’
Gatsby ‘took’ Daisy
‘took her because he had no real right to touch her hand.’
Gatsby God
‘the son of God.’
Revaluing possessions
'’I think he revalued everything in his house according to the response it drew from her well-loved eyes.’
Mr…
‘Mr Nobody from Nowhere.’
Carelessness
'’they smashed up things and creatures then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.’
a fool
‘I hope she’ll be a fool, that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’
paintless days
‘dimmed a little by many paintless days’
Father
‘he must be about his father’s business’
men in Valley of Ashes
‘men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.’
‘ash-grey men’
end words
‘it eluded us then, but that’s no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.’
boats
‘so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaslessly into the past.’
Tom’s appearance
‘two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face.’
Tom racist
‘dominant race’
Gatsby’s guests
‘came and went like moths’
Daisy and Jordan
‘like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses’
Daisy’s voice
1) ‘her voice is full of money…that was the inexhaustable charm of it.’
2) ‘I think it was her voice that held him most…that voice was a deathless song.’
Importance of green light
‘the colossal significance of that green light had now vanished forever.’
Nick’s privilege
‘all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’
Daisy/ his dreams
Daisy tumbled short of his dreams…because of the colossal vitality of his illusion’
consoling…
‘in the consoling proximity of millionaires.’
Myrtle
‘carries her flesh sensuously’
‘immediately perceptable vitality.’
East egg
‘white palaces of east egg glittered’
Gatsby’s gift
‘extraordinary gift for hope.’
Middle East to Nick
‘the ragged edge of the universe’
Tom and Daisy drifting
‘drifted here and there wherever people played polo and were rich together.’
Tom drifting
‘Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully’
Tom and Daisy’s garden
‘a quarter of a mile long’
Jordan and Nick’s relationship
‘consciously devoid of meaning’
Daisy sad
‘I’m pretty cynical about everything’
Tom sexism
‘women run around too much these days to suit me’
Dust in Valley of Ashes
‘impenetrable cloud’
Tom violence
‘Tom broke her nose with his open hand’
Married
‘neither of them can stand the person they’re married to.’
Businessmen at parties
‘aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.’
Nick lonely
‘I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others.’
Gatsby’s car
‘rich cream colour, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length.’
New York
‘wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world’
Gatsby’s business
‘rather confidential sort of thing’
Wolfsheim
‘play with the faith of fifty million people.’
Devotion
‘five years of unwavering devotion’
Recover
‘he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself that had gone into loving Daisy’
Visions
‘wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath’
Tom insulting Gatsby
‘common swindler’
Daisy and the poor
‘Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor’
High price
‘paid a high price for living too long with a single dream’
Western v Eastern life
‘all westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us suitably unadaptable to eastern life’
Oranges
‘5 crates’ ‘pyramid of pulp less halves’
Nick race
‘three modish negroes’
