great gatsby quotes Flashcards
Daisy chp 1 ?
tom chp 1?
beautiful fool chp 1?
- “It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an
arrangement of notes that will never be played again. Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth[…] 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.”
“Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch. […] Two arrogant eyes
established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward.
I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
myrtle chp2?
Mrs Wilson had changed her costume sometime before, and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress of cream-coloured chiffon, which gave out a continual rustle as she swept about the room
orange juice machine chp3?
gatsby’s party chp3?
books gatsby’s library chp3?
Gatsby after party chp 3?
“There was a
machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an
hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler’s thumb.”
the rules of behaviour associated with an amusement park
absolutely real - have pages and everything
a sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell
telling nick oxford chp4?
setting NYC chp4?
jordan telling nick about daisy “an hour before the bridal dinner” chp 4?
daisy after honeymoon chp 4?
He hurried the phrase ‘educated at oxford’
“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the
city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and
beauty of the world.”
found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress - and as drunk as a monkey (sad about gatsby - she said “goodbye to a soldier who was going overseas”)
i saw them in Santa Barbara when they came back, and I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband
why gatsby throws the parties chp 4?
‘I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night’ went on Jordan, ‘but she never did’
what was the weather the day gatsby and daisy reunited chp 5?
clock in scene where gatbsy reunites daisy chp 5?
green light dock chp 5?
disappointment in daisy chp 5?
“the day agreed upon was pouring rain” e
“Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in place” (gatsby catching it ) - desire to go back to the past, obession with the past, nervousness if daisys feelings have changed with time
Gatsby: “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock”
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion
Gatsby inventing himself chp 6?
what does gatsby say to nick about repeating the past chp 6?
Gatsby’s expectation of daisy?
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God…. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.
“You can’t repeat the past.”
“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: “I never loved you.” After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house—just as if it were five years ago.
Daisy’s chamr chp 7?
how does daisy feel about gatsby and tom chp 7?
nivck turning 30 chp 7?
“Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly.
That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it…. High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl…”
“Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now—isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once—but I loved you too.”
I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade
nicks compliment to gatsby chp 8?
gatsbys attraction to daisy through other men chp 8?
“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy - it increased her value in his eyes
what tom and daisy are like chp 9?
ending quote chp 9?
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.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
- This apt metaphor characterizes both Gatsby’s struggle and the American dream itself.He focuses on the struggle of human beings to achieve their goals by both transcending and re-creating the past. Yet humans prove themselves unable to move beyond the past: in the metaphoric language used here, the current draws them backward as they row forward toward the green light.This past functions as the source of their ideas about the future (epitomized by Gatsby’s desire to re-create 1917 in his affair with Daisy) and they cannot escape it as they continue to struggle to transform their dreams into reality. While they never lose their optimism (“tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther . . .”), they expend all of their energy in pursuit of a goal that moves ever farther away. This apt metaphor characterizes both Gatsby’s struggle and the American dream itself. Nick’s words register neither blind approval nor cynical disillusionment but rather the respectful melancholy that he ultimately brings to his study of Gatsby’s life.
tom clothes
He has on a dress suit and patent - leather shoes, and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him, but every time he looked at me I had to pretend to be looking at the advertisement over his head
east egg chp 1?
wedding below chp 7?
across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable east egg glittered along the water
east egg chp 1?
wedding below chp 7?
people coming to gatsbys parties like moths chp 2?
gatsby slept with her because he had no right (penniless young man) chp 8?
across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable east egg glittered along the water
we were listening to the portenous chords of Mendelssohn’s Wedding March from the ballroom below
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths
eventually he took daisy one still October night, took her because he had no real right to touch her hand - (owns her sexuality - slept with her because he shouldnt means he can do anything)
how gatsby is romantic first impression chp 3?
gatsby telling his fear of image to nick chp 4?
valley of ashes chp 2?
it faced (his smile) - or seemed to face - the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistable prejudice in your favour
i didnt want you to think I was just some nobody
This is the valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. - (It represents the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth, as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure, The Valley of Ashes is a symbol that represents death, poverty, moral decay, and the unattainability of the American Dream.)
tj eckeleburg eyes chp 7?
description of myrtle after being hit?
gatsbys house chp 8?
Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their vigil, - (While Nick, Tom, and Jordan are stopped at George Wilson’s shop, Nick reveals that the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are almost supernaturally pulling his attention toward something, which turns out to be Myrtle. Again, the billboard foreshadows the tragic events to come and almost seems to be warning Nick away from the situation. Although Nick never explicitly compares the advertisement to God or any other sort of higher power, in his recounting of the story, he bestows on the billboard some sort of inexplicable powers.)
the mouth was wide open and ripped a little at the corners, as though she has choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long
his house had never seemed so enormous to me… i tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano. There was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere
