Great Gatsby ALL Flashcards
Marius Bewley [daisy]
“[Daisy has] an emptiness that we see curdling into the viciousness of a monstrous moral indifference as the story unfolds”
Alfred Kazin
“[Daisy is] vulgar and inhuman”
Leland S Person
“No woman, no human being, could ever approximate the platonic ideal he has invented”
Marius Bewley [dream]
“The Great Gatsby is an exploration of the American Dream as it exists in a corrupt period”
“furniture…”
“furniture entirely too large.”
“So we beat on…”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“beautiful…”
“beautiful little fool”
“Angry, and…”
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
“And I like…”
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
“one of those…”
“one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it”
“Can’t repeat…”
“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
“blue…”
“blue gardens”
“They were…”
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy”
“You can’t…”
“You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.”
“So we drove…”
“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”
“silver…”
“silver idols”
“you always…”
“you always look so cool”
“Gatsby believed…”
“Gatsby believed in the green light”
“Her voice…”
“Her voice is full of money”
“I am one of the…”
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
“Dishonesty…”
“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.”
“I’ve been…”
“I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated!”
“I wasn’t actually…”
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity”
“just remember…”
“just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
‘You’re worth…”
‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
“retreated…”
“retreated back into their money”
“Daisy…”
“Daisy tumbled short of his dreams”
“You…”
“You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.”
Mason Scisco
“he transforms Daisy herself into a thing”
