Key Quotations - Daisy

Question 1

Struggles of women

Answer 1

‘I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool’

Question 2

Crying over materialism

Answer 2

‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such…such beautiful shirts before’

Question 3

Her voice

Answer 3

‘Her voice is full of money’

Question 4

Her charm

Answer 4

‘inexhaustible charm that rose’

Question 5

Love for Gatsby and Tom

Answer 5

‘Oh, you want too much! I love you now - isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s in the past!… I did love him once - but I loved you too’

Question 6

Privilege of doing nothing

Answer 6

• ‘What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon?…and the day after that, and the next thirty years?’
• ‘I’m p-paralysed with happiness’

Question 7

After Gatsby and Tom’s argument

Answer 7

‘With every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave up, and only the dead dream fought on’

Question 8

Aftermath of Myrtle’s death

Answer 8

‘She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby - nothing.’

Question 9

Talking about herself

Answer 9

‘Sophisticated! God, I’m so sophisticated!’