Quotes Flashcards
“We beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”
Nick Carraway, Chapter 9
“One of the few honest people I have ever known”
Nick Carraway, Chapter 3
“At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others”
Nick Carraway, Chapter 3
“A man of fine breeding”
Jay Gatsby, Chapter 4
“A regular Belasco”
Jay Gatsby, Chapter 3
“One of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it”
Jay Gatsby, Chapter 3
“Had the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down”
Daisy Buchanan, Chapter 1
“Arrogant eyes” “enormous power” “cruel body”
Tom Buchanan, Chapter 1
“She carries her flesh sensuously as some women can”
Myrtle Wilson, Chapter 2
“Single green light”
Chapter 1
“A blond, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome”
George Wilson, Chapter 2
“Tumbled short of his dreams” “colossal vitality of his illusion”
Nick about Daisy and Gatsby, Chapter 5
“The colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever”
Nick Carraway, Chapter 5
“Stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade”
Nick Carraway, Chapter 7
“Smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money” and “let other people clean up the mess”
Nick Carraway about the Buchanans, Chapter 9
