Gatsby - top 10 quotes

Question 1

myrtle in C2

Answer 1

“I told that boy about the ice.. You have to keep after them all the time”

Question 2

“I hope she’ll..

Answer 2

be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be” (Daisy, C1)

Question 3

Jordan explaining in C4 to Nick

Answer 3

“before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars”

Question 4

Daisy’s superficiality

Answer 4

“You always look so cool” to Gatsby (C7)

Question 5

Daisy’s realisation that she could have had money and love

Answer 5

“They’re such beautiful shirts.. I’ve never seen such beautiful shirts” (Daisy C5)

Question 6

“He invented the sort

Answer 6

of Jay Gatsby that a 17 year old boy would” - Nick, C6

Question 7

Tom’s immorality

Answer 7

“I go off.. and make a fool of myself, but I always come back [to Daisy]” (C7)

Question 8

“What’ll we do..

Answer 8

this afternoon.. and the day after that, and the next 30 years?” (Daisy, C7)

Question 9

Nick’s idolatry of Gatsby

Answer 9

C8 - “you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”

Question 10

how the wealthy hide behind their money

Answer 10

“they smashed up things.. and then retreated back into their vast carelessness” (Nick, C9)