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Nick- Final quote

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‘So we beat on boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past’

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Daisy- her daughter

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‘that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool’

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Jordan- parties

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‘I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy’

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Nick- Gatsby’s smile

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‘He smiled understandably’

‘Eternal reassurance in it’

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Nick- Variety of life

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‘I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life’

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Nick- categories everyone falls into

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‘There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired’

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Nick- his fathers advice

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‘Just remember that all the people in the world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had’

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Nick/ Gatsby- the past

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‘You can’t repeat the past… why of course you can’

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Nick- Gatsby’s parents

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‘his imagination had never fully accepted them as his parents at all’

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Nick- Wilson’s character

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‘spiritless man’

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Nick- Gatsby’s hope

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‘extraordinary gift for hope’

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Nick- Gatsby’s house

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‘factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville’

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Nick- enchanted objects

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‘his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one’

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Nick- ‘right for Daisy’

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‘took her because he had no real right to touch her hand’

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Nick- Gatsby’s belief

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‘Son of God

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Tom- belittling Gatsby

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‘Mr nobody from nowhere’

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Nick- Tom and Daisy careless

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‘They were careless people Tom and Daisy, they smashed up things and creatures then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness’

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Tom- civilisation

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‘civilisation’s going to pieces’

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Nick- valley of ashes men

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‘men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air’

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Tom- race

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‘dominant race’

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Nick- Tom’s appearance

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‘Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face’

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Nick- character of Gatsby’s guests’

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‘Came and went like moths’

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Nick-penultimate quote

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‘Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then but that’s no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… then one fine morning-‘

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Nick- his own honesty

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‘I am one of the few honest people I have ever know‘

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Nick- Daisy’s voice

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‘her voice is full of money, that was the inexhaustible charm of it’

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Nick- Myrtle’s image

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‘carried her flesh sensuously’

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Nick- Gatsby’s Dreams

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‘Daisy tumbled short of his dreams… because of the colossal vitality of his illusion’

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Nick- Jordan’s character

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‘Incurably dishonest’

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