gatsby quotes chapters 1-6 Flashcards
I wanted the world to be at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more privileged glimpses into the human heart.
nick
he’d brought down a string of polo ponies form lake forest (he)
tom
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)
gatsby’s house
you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat (his)
tom
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)
daisy
brute of a man, a great big hulking phsycial specimen of a (speaker
daisy
it’s up to us, who are the dominant race to watch out of those other races will have control of things (speaker
tom
sh—-don’t talk. i want to hear what happens. (speaker)
jordan
I’ve been everywhere and done everything—god, im sophisticated!! (speaker)
daisy
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)
gatsby
but his eyes, dimmed a little by the many paintless days under sun a rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground (his)
dr. t. j. eckelberg
was an imperceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering (her)
myrtle
these people! you have to keep after them all the time (speaker)
mrytle
he borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in and never even told me about it (he)
george wilson
its his wife thats keeping them apart. she’s catholic and they don’t believe in divorce(speaker)
catherine
absolutely real—-have pages and everything. i thought they’d be nice, durable cardboard (speaker)
owl eyes man
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)
gatsby
what’s matter? did we run outta gas? (speaker)
owl eyed man
she was incurably dishonest (she)
jordan
it was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length (it)
gatsby’s rolls royce
i tried very hard to die but i seemed to bear an enchanted life (I)
gatsby
they were composed of oddly familiar pieces of ivory (they)
wolfsheim’s cufflinks
take ‘em downstairs and give ‘em back to whoever they belong to. tell ‘em all daisy’s changer her mind (‘em)
pearls
five years next November (speaker)
gatsby
by god, i may be old fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me (I)
tom
