Key Quotations - Gatsby Flashcards
Nicknames
‘Old Sport’
Gatsby getting ready to meet Daisy
‘he was running down like an overwound clock’
Gatsby’s optimism
‘Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!’
Gatsby confronting Tom about Daisy
‘Your wife doesn’t love you. She’s never loved you. She loves me.’
Gatsby’s hope
‘Gatsby believed in the green light’
Tom refers to Gatsby as
‘Mr Nobody from Nowhere’
Gatsby’s stubbornness about Daisy’s love
‘Of course she might have loved him just for a minute…in any case, it was just personal
Rumours
- ‘Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once’
- ‘It’s more that he was a German spy during the war’
- ‘He once told me he was an Oxford man’
Pursuit of Daisy
‘Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay’
Nervousness about meeting Daisy
‘He was pale, and there were dark signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes’
His real name
‘James Gatz of North Dakota’
His parents
‘His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people’
