Quotes

Question 0

Driving.

Risky.

Answer 0

Was Daisy driving? Yes. But of course I’ll say I was.

Question 1

Bite physically.

Answer 1

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

Question 2

Off on a spree. Heart. Take better care.

Answer 2

I love Daisy too. Once I’m a while I go off on a spree but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time…I’m going to take better care of you from now on.

Question 3

Pathetic fallacy.

Answer 3

The compressed heat exploded.

Question 4

Row.

Answer 4

What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?

Question 5

Startled expression. Killed a man.

Answer 5

I turned to Gatsby- and he was startled at his expression…as if he had killed a man.

Question 6

Told him she loved him.

Answer 6

She has told him she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

Question 7

Repeat past.

Answer 7

Can’t repeat the past? He cried incredulously. Why of course you can!

Question 8

Clock. Tilt dangerously. Trembling fingers.

Answer 8

The clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers, and set it back in place.

Question 9

Felt married to her. Committed to Grail.

Answer 9

He found that he has committed himself to the following of a grail…he felt married to her.

Question 10

Bootlegger. “Drugstores”.

Answer 10

Who are you anyhow…I found out what your “drugstores” were…I picked him for a bootlegger.

Question 11

Groceries.

Answer 11

You’re crazy!…I’ll be damned if I see now you got within a mile of her unless you brought the groceries to the back door…Daisy loved me when she married me and she loves me now.

Question 12

Careless people. Smashed. Clean mess.

Answer 12

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and then retreated back into their money…and let other people clean up the mess.

Question 13

Flirtation over.

Answer 13

Go on. He won’t annoy you. I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.

Question 14

She may have loved him.

Answer 14

She hardly knew what she was saying…she may have loved him…and loved me more then.

Question 15

Things between Daisy and I.

Answer 15

Why- there’s things between Daisy and me you’ll never know, things that neither of us can forget.

Question 16

Deluded. Outside house.

Answer 16

I’m just going to wait here and see if he tries to bother her…if he tries any brutality she’s going turn the light out and on again…I want to wait here till Daisy goes to bed.

Question 17

Grotesque rose.

Answer 17

A grotesque rose.

Question 18

Mr Nobody.

Answer 18

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife…nowadays people begin sneering at family life and family institutions.

Question 19

Dream. Delusional.

Answer 19

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly grasp it. He did not know it was already behind him.

Question 20

You’re not.

Answer 20

With a touch of panic, ‘you’re not going to take care of her anymore!’

Question 21

Not leaving me. Common swindler.

Answer 21

Daisy’s leaving you. Nonsense! She’s not leaving me…certainly not for a common swindler who’d have to steal the ring he put on her finger.

Question 22

That you never loved him.

Answer 22

Daisy. That’s all over now. It doesn’t matter anymore. Just tell him the truth- that you never loved him- and it’s all wiped out forever.

Question 23

Wife doesn’t love you. Mistake.

Answer 23

Your wife doesn’t love you. She’s never loved you. She loves me…she only married you because I was poor…it was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except Me!

Question 24

Table.

Answer 24

He was talking intently across the table…and anybody would have said they were conspiring together.

Question 25

Dock. Watching over nothing.

Answer 25

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight watching over nothing.

Question 26

Last quote.

Answer 26

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Question 27

GL. Orgastic future.

Answer 27

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then.

Question 28

Drawing further. Dead dream. No longer tangible.

Answer 28

It passed, and he began to talk excitedly about Daisy, denying everything, defending his name…but with every word she was drawing further and further into herself and only the dead dream fought on…trying to touch what was no longer tangible.

Question 29

Say I never loved you. Obliterating.

Answer 29

He wanted nothing less of Daisy that they she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you’. After obliterating four years with that sentence they go decide upon more practical matters.

Question 30

Tumbled short of his dreams. Colossal vitality.

Answer 30

There must have been moments where Daisy had tumbled short of his dreams- not through her own fault, but because the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone behind her, he had thrown himself into it with a creative passion.

Question 31

Myrtle death. Violently extinguished.

Answer 31

Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished.

Question 32

Inconceivable pitch of intensity. Running down like an overwound clock.

Answer 32

He was consumed with winder of her presence, he had been dunk of the idea for so long, dreamed it through to the end…at an inconceivable pitch of intensity…he was running down like an overwound clock.

Question 33

Colossal affair. Across the bay.

Answer 33

The one on my right was a colossal affair…Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay…he came alive to me, delivered suddenly from his purposeless spender.

Question 34

Sudden intimation. Alone. Trembling. GL.

Answer 34

He gave a sudden intimation that he was content onto be alone- he stretches out his arms…I could have sworn he was trembling…I glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing except a single green light.