Great Gatsby: Attraction and Desire

Question 1

Daisy’s voice

Answer 1

There was an excitement in her voice that men who cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “listen”, a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.

C1, P8

Question 2

Daisy’s voice and comparing it to music

Answer 2

It was the kind of void that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

C1, P9

Question 3

Nick pulling Jordan closer

Answer 3

Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs, and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms.

C4, P52

Question 4

Gatsby describing Daisy as extraordinary

Answer 4

He knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn’t realise how extraordinary a “nice” girl could be.

C8, P95