Gatsby Quotes - Women, Idealised and Idolised Flashcards
[Nick describing Daisy] “the exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. I had to follows the sound of it for a moment, up and down, with my ear alone, before any words came through. A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek.”
Chapter 5, Pages 54-55
“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.”
Chapter 5, Page 59, top
“Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees - he could climb it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.”
Chapter 6, Page 71, middleish
[Gatsby] “He found that he had committed himself to the following of a grail.”
Chapter 8, Page 95, 1/3rd down
