Key Quotations - Other Flashcards
1
Q
Myrtle’s feelings towards George
A
‘I can’t stand my husband. The only crazy thing I did was marry him’
2
Q
The Valley of Ashes
A
- ‘A fantastic farm’
- ‘A solemn dumping ground’
3
Q
Wilson’s intelligence
A
‘He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive’
4
Q
Myrtle and Tom’s marriages
A
‘Neither of them can stand the person they’re married to’
5
Q
Wilson on Myrtle’s affair
A
‘I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God’
6
Q
After Gatsby and George’s death
A
‘the holocaust was complete’
7
Q
George portrayed after his death
A
‘A man deranged by grief’
8
Q
Gatsby’s father
A
‘His eyes leaked continuously with excitement’
9
Q
Gatsby’s funeral
A
‘It wasn’t any use. Nobody came’
10
Q
Jordan’s walk not stereotypical of a woman
A
‘There was a jauntiness about her movements’
11
Q
West Egg
A
‘The less fashionable of the two’
