Gatsby Quotes - Oppression of Women Flashcards
“The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house. I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall. Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.”
Chapter 1, Page 7, second from last paragraph
“There was a flutter of a dress and the crunch of leather boots, and Tom and Daisy were back at the table.”
Chapter 1, Page 12, middle
[Daisy comments about her daughter] “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
Chapter 1, Page 13, 2/3rds down
[Tom’s view of Jordan’s golfing career] “‘She’s a nice girl,’ said Tom after a moment. ‘They oughtn’t to let her run around the country this way.’”
Chapter 1, Page 14, 3/4s down
“Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose open with his open hand”
Chapter 2, Page 25, middleish
[partygoers at the end of the night] “Both wives were lifted, kicking into the night”
Chapter 3, Page 34, near the bottom
[Daisy described as in demand in her youth] “she dressed in white, and had a little white roadster, and all day long the telephone rang in her house and excited young officers from Camp Taylor demanded the privilege of monopolizing her that night”
Chapter 4, Page 48, middle
[Daisy on the night of her marriage to Tom] “We gave her spirits of ammonia and put ice on her dorehead and hooked her back into her dress, and half an hour later, when we walked out of the room, the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over. Next day at five o’clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver.”
Chapter 4, Page 49, second last paragraph
[young Gatsby] “He knew women early, and since they spoiled him he became contemptuous of them, of young virgins because they were ignorant of others because they were hysterical about things which in his overwhelming self-absorption he took for granted”
Chapter 6, Page 63, 2/3rds down
[Myrtle’s death] “They saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap, and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath. The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.”
Chapter 7, Page 88, 1/3rd down (second paragraph)
“‘I’ve got my wife locked up in 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
“Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans.”
Chapter 7, Page 73, middleish
[Wilson reacts to the discovery of Myrtle’s affair] “He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock made him physically sick.”
Chapter 7, Page 79, 1/4 down
“Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control.”
Chapter 7, Page 79, bottom
