Quotes for Gastby/ Grapes

Question 1

Quotes for Class/selfishness in The Great Gatsby.

Answer 1

Gatsby, “just tell him the truth - that you never loved him”
Nick, “Tom and Daisy Smashed up things, and then retreated back into their money… and let other people clean up the mess”
Nick, “whenever you feel like criticising someone, just remember that all the people in the world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had

Question 2

Quotes for The American Dream in The Great Gatsby.

Answer 2

Nick, “he stretched his arm out towards the dark water… distinguished nothing except a single green light”
“But eyes, dimmed a little by many pointless days under the sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground”

Question 3

Quotes for Love in The Great Gatsby.

Answer 3

Mrtyle, “ I married him because I thought he was a gentleman… but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe”
Nick, “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered he wanted to recover something… he had gone into loving Dasiy”
Nick, “I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity”

Question 4

Key Daisy Quotes. TGG

Answer 4

1. “I hope she’ll be a fool… a beautiful little fool”
2. “What will we plan? What do people plan?”
3. “Tom’s getting very profound. He reads deep books with long words in them.”

Question 5

Key Nick Quotes. TGG

Answer 5

1. “Possibly it had occurred to Gatsby that the colossal Significance of that light had vanished forever”
2. “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered he wanted to recover something”

Question 6

Key Gatsby Quotes. TGG

Answer 6

1. “Cant repeat the past? Why of course you can.”
2. “Your wife doesn’t love you. She never loved you. She loves me”
3. “Old Sport”

Question 7

Key Mrtyle Quotes. TGG

Answer 7

1. “no facet of gleam or beauty. But there was immediately perceptible vitality”
2. “I thought he knew something about breeding. But he wasn’t fit enough to lick my shoe”

Question 8

Key Exploitation Quotes. TGOF

Answer 8

1. “Its a monster, men made it but they cant control it”

2. “in the eyes of the people there is failure”

Question 9

Key Desperation Quotes. TGOF

Answer 9

1. “Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man”
2. “The clouds appeared and went away again and did not try anymore”

Question 10

Key Ma Quotes. TGOF

Answer 10

1. “The citadel of the family”
2. “She seemed to know if she swayed the family shook”
3. “I ain’t got faith. I’m scared somepin’ ain’t so nice about it”

Question 11

Key Tom Quotes. TGOF

Answer 11

1. “Your bound to get ideas if you go thinkin about stuff”
2. “When ever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat. I’ll be there”
3. “Ya like to feel sorry for ya self. There ain’t nothing wrong with ya”

Question 12

American Dream Quotes. TGOF

Answer 12

1. “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”

2. “California. The promise land”