Quotations Gatsby Flashcards
The orchestra
Had arrived
I like large parties
They are so intimate
Sometimes they came and went without
Knowing Gatsby at all
I was on my way to get roaring
Drunk
A tray of cocktails
Floated at us through the twilight
A great number of single girls dancing
Individualistically
Champagne was served in glasses bigger than
Finger bowls
Most of the remaining women were having fights with
Men said to be their husbands
Wives were lifted
Kicking into the night
He was never quite still
There was always a tapping foot somewhere
I didn’t want you to think I was just
Somebody
People were not invited
They just went there
Cocktails permeate the garden outside
Until the air is alive with chatter and laughter
Laughter is
Easier by the minute
Agonisingly aware of the
Easy money in the vicinity
I was on my way to get roaring drunk
From sheer embarrassment
She responded
Absently
Her remark was addressed to
The premature moon
The premature moon, produced like supper, no doubt,
Out of a caterer’s basket
I never care what I do
So I always have a good time
The first supper,
There would be another after midnight
A great number of girls dancing
Individualistically
Champagne was served on glasses
Bigger than finger bowls
Most of the remaining women
We’re now having fights with men said to be their husbands
Whenever he sees I’m having a nice time
He wants to go home
You must see
Faces of many people you have heard about
They arrived at midnight and strolled
Out among the sparkling hundreds
She wasn’t having a
Good time
Gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the
Hot struggles of the poor’
Gatsby couldn’t afford ‘regular clothes’
He had to continue wearing his army uniform
The colossal vitality of
His illusion
It had grown beyond her,
Beyond anything
Men and girls came and went like
Moths
He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion
Decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way
I carry on a little business on the side
A sort of sideline, you understand
You dont make much
Money do you?
It happens to be a
Rather confidential thing
Is this absolutely where
You live my dearest one?
Standing in a puddle of water staring
Tragically into my eyes
His lips parted with
An abortive attempt at a laugh
I want you and
Daisy to come over to my house
It took me just three years to
Earn the money that bought it
Marie Antoinette music rooms and
Restoration salons
I think he revalued everything in his house
According to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes
The colossal significance of that
Light had now vanished forever
‘I’d like get one of those pink clouds and put you
In it and push you around’
It was the hour of profound
Human change and the excitement was generating in the air
The colossal vitality of
His illusion
His parents were shiftless
And unsuccessful farm people
I reached the point of believing
Everything and nothing about him
Women
Run around too much these days
I had grown to accept west egg as a world complete in itself
With its own standards and own great figures
