Old Money, New Money, No Money Flashcards
Nick’s memory of his father’s advice
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
Gatsby and Nick describe Daisy’s voice
“Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of 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.
East vs. West
That’s my Middle West . . . the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark. . . . I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
Nick about Jordan
She wasn’t able to endure being at a disadvantage.
Mr Nobody (description of Gatsby)
Mr Nobody from Nowhere
Living in West Egg
I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two.
Myrtle’s apartment
The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestry furniture entirely too large for it.
Gatsby’s party
The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the gardens outside.
First sighting of Daisy and Jordan
That was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
Description of the Buchanan house
The lawn started at the beach and ran towards the front door for a quarter of a mile.
