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Great Gatsby quotes Flashcards

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“I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”

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pg.13
Daisy wishes her to be ignorant to life’s struggles

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“she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where”

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pg.13
Tom infidelity

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“except a sing green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of the dock”

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pg. 16
symbol of the green light

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“faintly stout, but carried her flesh sensuously”

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pg.18
lust and sensuality

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“walking through her husband as if he were a ghost”

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pg.18
love as suffering

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“I want to see you,’ said Tome intently. ‘Get on the next train’”

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pg.18
power dynamics

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“Mrs Wilson had changed her costume sometime before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress”

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pg.21
materialist love and transactional relationships

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“I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe”

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pg. 23
transactional relationships- Wilson can’t provide for her

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“Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.”

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pg. 25 abusive relationships

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“They were so engrossed in each other that she didn’t see me until I was five feet away”

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pg.48 idealised love

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“The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time”

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pg. 48
idealised love

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“the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over”

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pg. 49
ownership and power dynamics

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“Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay”

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pg.51

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“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired”

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pg. 51
unattainable love

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15
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“rested against the face of a defunct mantlepiece clock”

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pg.55
Gatsby trying to cheat time

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“he turned and caught it with trembling fingers”

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pg. 55
Gatsby trying to control time and retrieve the past

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“he hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy”

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pg.59

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“the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever”

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pg.60
idealised love v reality

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“there must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams”

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pg.61

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“It had gone beyond her, beyond everything”

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pg.61-62
Not in love with Daisy but what she represents

21
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“But the rest offended her”
“she was appalled by West Egg”

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pg. 69
Doesn’t believe in social mobility and new money

22
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“I feel far away from her,’ he said. ‘It’s hard to make her understand.’

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pg.70
separation and barriers to love

23
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“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you’. After she had obliterated 4 years with that sentence”

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pg.70
Gatsby trying to return to the past without acknowledging the changes that have taken place

24
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“‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’

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pg.70
Gatsby has dedicated his entire life to recapturing a golden,
perfect past with Daisy. Gatsby believes that money can
recreate the past.

25
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“as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand”

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pg.70 unattainable love

26
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“He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.”

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pg.71
Love as devotion
Gatsby’s love for Daisy linked to extreme visions of grandure

27
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“Her voice is full of money”

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pg.76
Gatsby in love with what Daisy represents

28
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“He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world, and the shock had made him physically sick”

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pg.79
Unattainable love and love as suffering

29
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“Your wife doesn’t love you,’ said Gatsby. “She’s never loved you. She loves me”

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pg.83

30
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“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back”

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pg.84

31
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“you loved me too?” he repeated

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pg.85

32
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“Oh you want too much!” she cried

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pg.84
unattainable love

33
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“but with every word she was drawing further and further into herself”

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pg.86
separation

34
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“I heard a low husky sob, and saw that the tears were overflowing down his face.”

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pg.90
love as suffering

35
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“He spoke as if Daisy’s reaction was the only thing that mattered.”

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pg.92
Obsessive and idealised love

36
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‘but of course I’ll say I was”

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pg.92
selfless love

37
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“I waited, and about 4 o’clock she came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light.”

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pg.93
separation

38
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“He was clutching at some last hope”

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pg. 94
devotion, obsession, idealised

39
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“It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy- it increased her value in his eyes”

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pg.94
transactional relationships

40
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“he had committed himself to the following of a grail”
“he felt married to her, that was all”

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pg.95
obsessive love

41
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“Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.”

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pg.95

42
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“she was feeling the pressure of the world outside”

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pg.96
transactional relationships

43
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“I don’t think she ever loved him’”

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pg.96

44
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“And the result was she hardly knew what she was saying”

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pg.97

45
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“Wilson had no friend: there was not enough of him for his wife”

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pg.101

46
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“The gardener saw Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass, and the holocaust was complete”

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pg.103

47
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money”

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pg.114
destructive love, selfish love

48
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“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us”

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pg.115
idealised love

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