Gatsby Quotes - Damaged Relationships Flashcards
[following the phone call from Myrtle which disrupts the dinner] “Among the broken fragments of the last five minutes at the table”
Chapter 1, Page 12, 3/4s down
[Valley of Ashes description] “But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.”
Chapter 2, Page 16, end of second last paragraph
[Myrtle] “She smiled slowly and, walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye.”
Chapter 2, Page 18, top paragraph
“Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands. Even Jordan’s party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension.”
Chapter 3, Page 34, 2/3rds down
“‘I’ve got my wife locked in up there,’ explained Wilson calmly. ‘She’s going to stay there till the day after tomorrow, and then we’re going to move away.”
Chapter 7, Page 87, middleish
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”
Chapter 9, Page 114, middle
