Great Gatsby: Women being Idealised and Idolised Flashcards

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Nick describing Daisy

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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

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Astounding presence

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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

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Incomparable milk of wonder

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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

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Grail

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He [Gatsby] found that he had committed himself to the following of a grail

C8, P95

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