Nick Flashcards
According to Nick when is life more successful?
when looked at from a single window
“I was within and without simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the…
inexhaustible variety of life”
What is Nick content to see?
the nature of humans
Where does Nick live?
West Egg
What is Nick’s house squeezed between?
two huge places
Who does he live next to?
Gatsby
In which chapter is the quote “a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth”
Chapter 1
What does Nick say Gatsby represents in Chapter 1?
He represents everything for which I have an unaffected scorn
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his…
ghostly heart”
“I found myself…
on Gatsby’s side and alone”
What is the last sentence of the novel?
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
