quotes- the great Gatsby Flashcards
“in this blue garden people came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne”
people would show up just to be seen or reported in the local newspaper, and this quote shows the carelessness of the guests
“every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruitier in new York- every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his backdoor in a pyramid of pulp less halves”
how the guests devour the endless supply of food and never give a thought as to who gave it to them, this is also a symbol: it relates the ‘pulp less halves’ to the rather ‘empty’ guests, soulless people obsessed by image and wealth, a corruption of the American dream.
“the child relinquished by the nurse, rushed across the room and rooted shyly into her mothers dress”
the child doesn’t know her mother very well and is still very shy to go near her. Gatsby never really knew of the existence of daisy’s child, as daisy was probably afraid to tell him about her.
“afterward he kept looking at the child in surprise. I don’t the he had ever really believed it its existence before”
the word ‘it’ instead of her also denotes the child’s position as nil, daisy uses the child as a show item.
