Great Gatsby: Isolation and Unrequited Love

Question 1

Dark water

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Gatsby - emptiness and isolation

Answer 2

A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host

C3, P37

Question 3

Nick walking away from Gatsby

Answer 3

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing

C7, P93

Question 4

Wisp of air

Answer 4

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

Question 5

The funeral

Answer 5

Nobody came

C9, P111