Past, Present and Future Flashcards
1
Q
Parents
A
His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all
2
Q
Platonic
A
Sprang from his platonic conceptions of himself
3
Q
Invented
A
Sprang from his platonic conceptions of himself
4
Q
Broken
A
‘Jay Gatsby’ had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out
5
Q
Nobody
A
‘Mr Nobody from Nowhere’
6
Q
Grail
A
Committed himself to the following of a grail
7
Q
Past
A
‘You can’t repeat the past’
‘Why of course you can!’
8
Q
Uniform
A
‘The world to be in uniform and at a moral attention forever’
9
Q
Thinning
A
‘the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief of enthusiasm’
10
Q
Trains
A
‘Thrilling return trains of my youth’
