Setting Flashcards
Description of the Valley of Ashes
This is a Valley of Ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens
Gatsby and the green light
He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
East vs West
That’s my Middle West… the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark… I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
The final line
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Living in West Egg
I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two.
Myrtle’s apartment
The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestry furniture entirely too large for it.
The garden at Gatsby’s party
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
Gatsby’s party
The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the gardens outside.
First sighting of Daisy and Jordan
That was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
Description of the Buchanan house
The started at the beach and ran towards the front door for a quarter of a mile.
