Quotes Flashcards
How are Tom and Daisy described in chapter one?
They ‘drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.’
How is Daisy and Tom’s home described in chapter one?
‘a cheerful red-and white Georgian colonial mansion’
How is Tom described in chapter one?
‘He seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing’
What does Daisy wish for girls in the world to Nick in chapter one?
‘“That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”’
How is Myrtle described by Nick in chapter two?
Her face ‘contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediate perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.’
In the presence of Tom in chapter two, how does Myrtle dress and act?
She wears ‘an elaborate afternoon dress of cream coloured chiffon’ and ‘The immense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur.’
Why does Myrtle claim she married in chapter two?
‘“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman.’”
How is Gatsby described at the end of his party in chapter three?
‘A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host’
How does Nick describe his loneliness in chapter three?
‘At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others.’
How does Nick describe the party guests in chapter four?
‘the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby’s house’
How is Gatsby’s movements described by Nick in chapter four?
‘with the resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American - that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work in youth.’
What is Tom’s wedding gift to Daisy in Jordan’s chapter four narrative?
‘A string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.’
How does Nick mockingly sum up Gatsby’s actions in chapter four?
‘He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could ‘come over’ some afternoon to a stranger’s garden.’
How does Nick juxtapose himself to Gatsby in chapter four?
‘Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs, and so I drew up the girl beside me’
How does Daisy respond to Nick telling her not to bring Tom to a meeting with Gatsby in chapter five?
‘“Who is ‘Tom’?” she asked innocently.’
