Gatsby Quotes - Isolation/Unrequited Love Flashcards
“He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.”
Chapter 1, Page 16, 1/4 down
[Description of Gatsby] “A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host”
Chapter 3, Page 37, top
[Gatsby] “So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.”
Chapter 7, Page 93, middle
[Gatsby] “He stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his blurred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.”
Chapter 8, Page 97, 2/3rds down
[The funeral] “Nobody came.”
Chapter 9, Page 111, 1/4 down
