TGG - quotes Flashcards
1
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Gender roles - Daisy
A
“I hope she’ll be a fool, that the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”
2
Q
Nick - hypocrite
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“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope”
3
Q
Gatsby - past
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“Can’t repeat the past? … Why of course you can!”
4
Q
Nick - Gatsby/green light
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“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us”
5
Q
Tom about Gatsby
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“I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong”
6
Q
George about Myrtle
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“She might fool me but she can’t fool god”
7
Q
Final sentence in the novel
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“And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”
