Great Gatsby: Women being Idealised and Idolised Flashcards
Nick describing Daisy
The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. I had to follow the sound of it for a moment, up and down, with my ear alone, before the words came through. A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek
C5, P54
Astounding presence
Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real
C5, P59
Incomparable milk of wonder
Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees - he could climb it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the palp of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.
C6, P71
Grail
He [Gatsby] found that he had committed himself to the following of a grail
C8, P95