gatsby quotes chapters 1-6

Question 1

I wanted the world to be at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more privileged glimpses into the human heart.

Answer 1

nick

Question 2

he’d brought down a string of polo ponies form lake forest (he)

Answer 2

tom

Question 3

it was a factual imitation of some hotel de ville in normandy, with tower on one side, spanking new under a thin, raw beard of ivy (it)

Answer 3

gatsby’s house

Question 4

you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat (his)

Answer 4

tom

Question 5

it was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again (person being described)

Answer 5

daisy

Question 6

brute of a man, a great big hulking phsycial specimen of a (speaker

Answer 6

daisy

Question 7

it’s up to us, who are the dominant race to watch out of those other races will have control of things (speaker

Answer 7

tom

Question 8

sh—-don’t talk. i want to hear what happens. (speaker)

Answer 8

jordan

Question 9

I’ve been everywhere and done everything—god, im sophisticated!! (speaker)

Answer 9

daisy

Question 10

he stretched his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as i was from him, i could have sworn he was trembling (he)

Answer 10

gatsby

Question 11

but his eyes, dimmed a little by the many paintless days under sun a rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground (his)

Answer 11

dr. t. j. eckelberg

Question 12

was an imperceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering (her)

Answer 12

myrtle

Question 13

these people! you have to keep after them all the time (speaker)

Answer 13

mrytle

Question 14

he borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in and never even told me about it (he)

Answer 14

george wilson

Question 15

its his wife thats keeping them apart. she’s catholic and they don’t believe in divorce(speaker)

Answer 15

catherine

Question 16

absolutely real—-have pages and everything. i thought they’d be nice, durable cardboard (speaker)

Answer 16

owl eyes man

Question 17

it was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life (person described)

Answer 17

gatsby

Question 18

what’s matter? did we run outta gas? (speaker)

Answer 18

owl eyed man

Question 19

she was incurably dishonest (she)

Answer 19

jordan

Question 20

it was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length (it)

Answer 20

gatsby’s rolls royce

Question 21

i tried very hard to die but i seemed to bear an enchanted life (I)

Answer 21

gatsby

Question 22

they were composed of oddly familiar pieces of ivory (they)

Answer 22

wolfsheim’s cufflinks

Question 23

take ‘em downstairs and give ‘em back to whoever they belong to. tell ‘em all daisy’s changer her mind (‘em)

Answer 23

pearls

Question 24

five years next November (speaker)

Answer 24

gatsby

Question 25

by god, i may be old fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me (I)

Answer 25

tom