Society & Class Quotes

Question 1

A sense of the fundamental decencies is

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parcelled out unequally at birth- Nick

Question 2

I wanted no more riotous excursions with

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privileged glimpses into the human heart. - nick

Question 3

West Egg, the- well,

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the least fashionable of the two

Question 4

the consoling

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proximity of millionaires

Question 5

men and girls came

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and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

Question 6

“they’re a rotten crowd…

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You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

Question 7

he wanted us to know they were not

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beggars in the old country

Question 8

Our lives centered around the warmth and

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food and the return of the men at nightfall.

Question 9

the kind of girl

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you like better; now I come to town- Daisy

Question 10

“And on Monday 8 servants…

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… toiled all day”- Nick

Question 11

a string of pearls

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valued at $350000.

Question 12

“An Oxford Man!”…

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…“Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit.” Tom

Question 13

GRAPES 🏦 “The Bank-the monster -

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has to have profits all the time.”

Question 14

we’re half starved now.

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The kids are hungry all the time”- Grapes tenant farmers trying to reason with landowners.

Question 15

GRAPES 🚜 “One man on a tractor

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can take the place of twelve or fourteen families.”

Question 16

GRAPES 🏦 “The bank is something more than men…

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… It’s the monster. men made it, but they can’t control it.”

Question 17

GRAPES MIGRANT FAMILIES 🔨 they had gone against

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a system they did not understand and it had beaten them.”

Question 18

GRAPES “the quality of owning

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freezes you forever into “I” and cuts you off forever from the “we”.

Question 19

GRAPES “And all of them

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were caught in something larger than themselves.

Question 20

GARPES MA “A different

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time’s comin”

Question 21

GRAPES JC “Got a lot

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of sinful idears – but they seem kinda sensible.”

Question 22

GRAPES 👨‍💼”the men sat still

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• thinking - figuring.”

Question 23

GRAPES “(the truck) the new hearth,

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the living centre of the family.”

Question 24

GRAPES “This here is my

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country. I b’long here.”

Question 25

GRAPES “The houses were vacant,

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and a vacant house falls quickly apart.”

Question 26

GRAPES “Grampa didn’t die

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tonight. He died the minute you took ‘m off the place.”

Question 27

GRAPES “They were not farm

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men any more, but migrant men.”

Question 28

Grapes (Jim) “Maybe all men

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got one big soul ever’body’s a part of.”

Question 29

Grapes (Tom reflecting on what Jim said) “he jus’ got

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a little piece of a greta big soul.”

Question 30

Grapes (Tom) I know

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a fella ain’t no good alone.”

Question 31

Grapes “two men are

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not as lonely and perplexed as one” (Inter-Chapter 14)