Jay Gatbsy Flashcards
Gatsby’s smile
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance…. seemed to face- the whole eternal world for an instant
Gatsby’s old english colloquialism
Old Sport
Gatsby’s library
Absolutely real- have pages and everything…what thoroughness! What realism! New when to stop too-didn’t cut the pages
Gatsby’s false european youth
“I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of europe…collecting jewels, chiefly rubies
How Gatz invented Gatsby x2
“Sprang from a platonic conception of himself”
“So he invented just the sort of jay gatsby that a 17 year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful
Gatsby deciding to social climb
“Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalk really made a ladder”
Gatsby tying his american dream to his love for daisy
forever wed his inutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of god
When gatsby sees pammy
looking at the child in suprise. I don’t think he ever really believed in its existence before
the green light losing its significance
his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one
gatsby’s hamartia
can’t repeat the past…why of course you can!
Gatsby’s green light delusion
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future which year by year recedes before us
Gatsby and the rose
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is
