Quotations Flashcards

1
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“A beautiful little fool”

A

• Daisy is a product of a society that does not value the intelligence of women
• Does No try to challenge the stereotype
• A girl can have more fun if she is beautiful
• Conforms to the standard of American feminist in the 1920s

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2
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“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it” chapter 3

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• How Gatsby appears to the outside world which Fitzgerald deconstructs
• His smile seems to be important for the role he designed for himself at 17
• Reflects a persons most optimistic version of themselves

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3
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“That’s my middle west….I see now this has been a story of the west, after all- Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I were all westerners and perhaps possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life

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• Brings the motif of geography to a conclusion
• The east is associated with a fast-paced lifestyle, decadent parties and crumbling moral values and the pursuit of wealth
• The west and Midwest is associated with more traditional values
• The western character of his acquaintances is the source of the story’s tensions and attitudes
• The impracticality of Nicks midwestern values in New York society mirrors the impracticality of Gatsby’s dream

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“He stretched out his arms toward the dark water….i…distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away”
- Chapter 1

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  • The light represents Daisy
  • Could symbolize money, success, and the past
  • The inaccessibility of the green is an important element of its symbolism
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5
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“The apartment on the top floor- a small living room, a small dining room, a small bedroom and a bath”

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  • signifies the narrow opportunities that myrtle can achieve
  • And how narrow her mind is
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6
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“…Its driver hurried back to where Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingles with her thick dark blood with the dust”

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  • Brief explanation shows insignificance, one in many deaths
  • sacrificed at the expense of wealthy careless men who abuse her
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