TGG quotes

Question 1

He was the single most hopeful person I’ve ever met

Answer 1

Nick

Question 2

Wall street was luring the young and ambitious and I was one of them

Answer 2

Nick

Question 3

The golden girl… she was the most frightening face I’d ever seen but I enjoyed looking at her

Answer 3

Nick

Question 4

This house and everything in it are all part of an elaborate disguise

Answer 4

Gatsby

Question 5

Rich girls don’t marry poor boys

Answer 5

tom

Question 6

sorry to keep her from you, old sport

Answer 6

gatsby

Question 7

he’s a gambler. He’s a very smart man

Answer 7

gatsby

Question 8

I’ve aways been told to see the best in people… I’m inclined to reserve all judgment… but even I have a limit

Answer 8

Gatsby

Question 9

…beyond the walls of the colossal castle

Answer 9

gatsby

Question 10

The Valley of ashes was a grotesque place

Answer 10

nick

Question 11

New York’s dumping ground… with the burnt-out coal that powered the booming golden city.

Answer 11

nick

Question 12

This fantastic farm was watched by Dr TJ Eckleburg, whose eyes brooded over all like the eyes of God

Answer 12

nick

Question 13

Neither of them like who they’re married to, George Wilson is a greasy little scumbag

Answer 13

nick

Question 14

I awoke with a distinctly uneasy feeling that Gatsby was watching me

Answer 14

nick

Question 15

I realized I knew nothing about Gatsby

Answer 15

Nick

Question 16

I knew I had discovered a man of fine breeding

Answer 16

Nick

Question 17

If it wasn’t for the mist we could see the green light

Answer 17

Gatsby

Question 18

Now it was once again just a green light on a dock and his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one

Answer 18

nick

Question 19

If only it’d been enough for Gatsby just to hold Daisy but he had a grand vision for his life and Daisy’s part in it

Answer 19

nick

Question 20

You know most of these rich people are just filthy bootleggers

Answer 20

Tom

Question 21

of course, if anything is not to your liking, I’ll change it

Answer 21

Gatsby

Question 22

I could care less about the parties… I’ve gotten all these things for her

Answer 22

Gatsby

Question 23

He talked a lot about the past as if he could recover something

Answer 23

Gatsby

Question 24

of course, you can [repeat the past]

Answer 24

Gatsby

Question 25

Five years ago his uniform hid the truth that he was a penniless young man

Answer 25

Nick

Question 26

I've always known that I could climb but I could only climb if I was alone

Answer 26

Gatsby

Question 27

she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete

Answer 27

nick

Question 28

I just need more time old sport

Answer 28

Gatsby

Question 29

I changed my mind your brute

Answer 29

Daisy

Question 30

Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic... his mistress and wife an hour ago so secure, were both slipping from his control

Answer 30

nick

Question 31

You ask too much Jay. Isn't that enough for you?

Answer 31

Daisy

Question 32

The only respectable thing about you old sport is your money. We're different from you. It's in our blood

Answer 32

Tom

Question 33

With every word Daisy was drawing further and further into herself

Answer 33

Nick

Question 34

They were careless people Tom and Daisy, they smashed up things and people and then retreated back to their money and vast carelessness

Answer 34

Nick

Question 35

My one golden shimmering mirage, now made me sick

Answer 35

nick

Question 36

While [Gatsby] stood before us concealing an incorruptible dream

Answer 36

Nick

Question 37

His dream must have been so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it, but he did not know that it was already behind him

Answer 37

nick

Question 38

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us

Answer 38

Nick

Question 39

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther and one fine morning, so we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly against the past.

Answer 39

Nick