Great Gatsby Quotes Flashcards
Green light…
“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
Married him for gentlemen
“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman… I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.”
Gatsby shirts
Suddenly, with a strange sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily
Across the bay
“Gatsby bought that house so that he would be just across the bay” page
Going to town
“Who wants to go to town?” demanded Daisy insistently. Gatsbys eyes floated towards her. “Ah,” she cried “you look so cool”
Out in the rain
Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes
Gatsby be living in light
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
Daisy and value
It excited him, too, that many men had already love Daisy- it increased her value in his eyes
West egg and nick
I lived at West Egg, the-well, the least fashionable of the two,… Page 14
Daisy married Tom
“Daisy loved me when she married me and she loves me now.” page 246
Loving Tom and gatsby
“Oh, you want to much!” She cried to Gatsby. “I love you now- isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s the past”
Kissing daisy
“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 mind of God.”
Hope she will be a fool….
“I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool
