Isolation and loneliness Flashcards
Description of Gatsby alone at his party
“but no one swooned backward on Gatsby, and no French bob touched Gatsby’s shoulder, and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby’s head for one link.”
Description of Gatsby alone AFTER the party
“A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great door, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host”
Nick reflects on his loneliness
“At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others”
Nick on his birthday
“Thirty - the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
Gatsby returning to the places he went with Daisy
“He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night and revisiting the out-of-the-way places to which they had driven in her white car.”
