Quotes Flashcards
Nick- Final quote
‘So we beat on boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past’
Daisy- her daughter
‘that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool’
Jordan- parties
‘I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy’
Nick- Gatsby’s smile
‘He smiled understandably’
‘Eternal reassurance in it’
Nick- Variety of life
‘I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life’
Nick- categories everyone falls into
‘There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired’
Nick- his fathers advice
‘Just remember that all the people in the world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had’
Nick/ Gatsby- the past
‘You can’t repeat the past… why of course you can’
Nick- Gatsby’s parents
‘his imagination had never fully accepted them as his parents at all’
Nick- Wilson’s character
‘spiritless man’
Nick- Gatsby’s hope
‘extraordinary gift for hope’
Nick- Gatsby’s house
‘factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville’
Nick- enchanted objects
‘his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one’
Nick- ‘right for Daisy’
‘took her because he had no real right to touch her hand’
Nick- Gatsby’s belief
‘Son of God
Tom- belittling Gatsby
‘Mr nobody from nowhere’
Nick- Tom and Daisy careless
‘They were careless people Tom and Daisy, they smashed up things and creatures then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness’
Tom- civilisation
‘civilisation’s going to pieces’
Nick- valley of ashes men
‘men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air’
Tom- race
‘dominant race’
Nick- Tom’s appearance
‘Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face’
Nick- character of Gatsby’s guests’
‘Came and went like moths’
Nick-penultimate quote
‘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-‘
Nick- his own honesty
‘I am one of the few honest people I have ever know‘
