Lies, Deception & the Unreliable Narrator Flashcards
Nick’s final words to Gatsby
“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” I’ve always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end.
Nick’s reaction to Gatsby’s life story.
Then I saw it, it was all there. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the grand court, I saw him opening a chest of rubies, with the crimson red light, the depths, the gnawing of his broken heart.
First description of Tom
Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the power of that body.
Daisy’s description of her daughter
“And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
Myrtle’s aprtment
The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestry furniture entirely too large for it.
Final description of Daisy and Tom
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
Jordan about privacy
I like large parties, they’s so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
Dishonest women
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.
Gatsby’s party
The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the gardens outside.
First sighting of Jordan and Daisy
That was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
