Gatsby Quotes - Comic Portrayals of Love

Question 1

“Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged with weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.”

Answer 1

Chapter 5, Page 55, 1/3rd down

Question 2

[Gatsby] “He was consumed with wonder at her presence. He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.”

Answer 2

Chapter 5, Page 59, 1/3rd to middleish

Question 3

“Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs.”

Answer 3

Chapter 5, Page 59, top