Gatsby Quotes - Suffering and Entrapment Flashcards
[Gatsby] “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. 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, top 1/3rd
[Gatsby] “He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.”
Chapter 6, Page 71, middle
[hearing about Tom and Daisy’s love] ““The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.”
Chapter 7, Page 85, top
[Gatsby] “he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.”
Chapter 8, Page 103, 1/4 down
