Great Gatsby: Damaged Relationships Flashcards

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Following the phone call from Myrtle which disrupts the dinner

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Among the broken fragments of the last five minutes at the table

C1, P12

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Description of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg

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But his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground.

C2, P16

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Wilson ghost quote

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Myrtle smiled slowly, and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye.

C2, P18

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Fights at the party

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Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands. Even Jordan’s party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension

C3, P34

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Wilson talking about Myrtle being locked up

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“I’ve got my wife locked up there” explained Wilson calmly. “She’s going to stay there till the day after tomorrow, and then we’re moving away.

C7, P87

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Tom and Daisy - careless description

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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

C9, P114

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