Great Gatsby: Short-term/hollow Relationships Flashcards

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Abortive sorrows

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Abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men

C1, P3

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Casual innuendo

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The air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names

C3, P27

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Swell, dissolve and form

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The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath

C3, P27

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Superior couples, torturously

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Old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other torturously, fashionably, and keeping in the corners - a great number of single girls dancing individualistically

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Tom’s reaction to Myrtle’s death

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As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases

C7, P91

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Daisy - you want too much

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[Daisy] “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.”

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Describing Daisy accepting Tom’s proposal

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Doubtless there was a certain struggle and a certain relief

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Description after Gatsby’s death

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A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about …. like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding towards him through the amorphous trees

C8, P103

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A random partygoer is informed about Gatsby’s death

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There was a long silence on the other end of the wire, followed by an exclamation … then a quick squark as the connection was broken

C9, P 106

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Meyer Wolfsheim explaining why he isn’t attending Gatsby’s funeral

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When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out.

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Jordan’s reaction to her relationship w Nick ending

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“You threw me over on the telephone. I don’t give a damn about you now, but it was a new experience for me, and I felt a little dizzy for a while.”

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Jordan talking about driving

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“You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn’t I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person.”

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Gatsby’s funeral

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“Nobody came.”

C9, P111

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Nick’s break-up with Jordan

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I don’t know which of us hung up with a sharp click, but I know I didn’t care. I couldn’t have talked to her across a tea-table that day if I never talked to her again in this world

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