Great Gatsby: Devotion Flashcards
Dark water
He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, as far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness
C1, P16
Daisy and the letter
She wouldn’t let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap-dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow
C4, P49
Grail
He [Gatsby] found that he had committed himself to the following of a grail
C8, P95
Wisp of air
He [Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going too fast now for his blurred eyes and he knew that he had lost part of it, the freshest and the best, forever
C8, P97
Paid a high price
He [Gatsby] had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass
C8, P103
Gatsby’s father
“Of course we was broke up when he run off from home, but I see now there was a reason for it. He knew he had a big future in front of him. And ever since he made a success he was very generous with me”. He seemed reluctant to put away the picture, held it for another minute, lingering, before my eyes
C9, P110
