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The Great Gatbsy Flashcards

1
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some woman in New York

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Jordan to Nick, unshocked - flapper

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2
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extraordinary gift for hope

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Nick about Gatbsy

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3
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as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes

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Daisy and Jordan Ch1

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4
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Hulking

brute

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Tom

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5
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wet, grey little villages in France

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Nick and Gatsby bond Ch3

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6
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according to the rules of behaviour associated with an amusement park

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Gatsby’s party CH3

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7
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a sort of tender curiosity

golden shoulder

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Nick to Jordan CH3

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What thoroughness! What realism!

A regular Belasco

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Owl eyes CH3

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9
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in his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whispering and the champagne and the stars

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Gatsby’s party CH3

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10
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I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known

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Nick about himself CH3

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11
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He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour

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Discovers Gatsby’s love for Daisy from Jordan (bought house for her) CH4

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12
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I wondered if there wasn’t something a little sinister about him, after all

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Nick of Gatsby CH4

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13
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I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe

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Gatsby CH4

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14
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an ecstatic patron of recurrent light

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Gatsby glowing after convo with Daisy CH5

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15
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consumed with wonder at her presence

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Gatsby and Daisy CH5

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16
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many coloured disarray
beautiful shirts
stormily (cries)

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Daisy and Gatsby CH5

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17
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period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk

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medieval style of Gatsby’s house

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18
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the truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself

to this conception he was faithful to the end

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Plato - ancient greek philosopher said there is an ideal world beyond the material one in which we live:
created an ideal version of himself

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19
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past

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CH

can’t escape past or flow of time

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20
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suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder

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CH6 imagined flashback

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21
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I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me

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CH6 Tom - misogyny, double standards

little freedom of women

22
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forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God

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CH6 imagined flashback

23
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Tremendous vitality

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myrtle

24
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fresh, green breast of the new world

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Ch9 visionary images, American Dream traditional

25
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Her voice is full of money

a deathless song

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Daisy voice

26
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I had one of those renewals of complete faith in him that I’d experienced before

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CH7 nick about Gatsby

27
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What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? cried Daisy, and the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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CH7 purposeless drifting, rich and wealthy - no goals or dreams
Lost generation

28
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Me Nobody from Nowhere

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tom to gatsby

29
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Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor

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CH8

30
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committed himself to the following of a grail

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CH8

medieval, CL figure

31
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but always with indiscernible barbed wire between

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CH8
Gatsby met those of Daisy’s social class (distance of social elite)
powerful metaphor - recent war in Europe

32
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Imagery of Ashes and Dust
foul dust
a white ashen dust
an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere

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Valley of ashes and to describe gatsby and gatsby house

33
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Jay Gatsby had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice

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CH8

identity shattered

34
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a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all

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CH9

35
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Old sport

elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd

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CH3

36
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one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it

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Gatsby CH3

37
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at the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others

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CH3 Nick

38
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pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove

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CH3 Nick

39
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I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything

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superficial involvement in life
desperate recognition that life lacks purpose

DAISY Ch1

40
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her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it

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CH1 Daisy

41
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there was an excitement in her voice that the men who had cared for her found difficult to forget

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CH1 Daisy

42
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made her voice huskies and more charming than ever

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Daisy CH8

43
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alert, aggressive way

a cruel body

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Tom description

44
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a scornful mouth
bored haughty face
she was incurably dishonest
clean, hard, limited person, who dealt in universal scepticism

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Negative description of Jordan by Nick

45
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he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe

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Myrtle CH2

46
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an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering

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CH2 myrtle

47
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life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all

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Gatsby desire for daisy : an obsession

CH1

48
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I thought of Gatsby’s face when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock

face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder

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sense of wonder
the American dream
CH9

49
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(wanted the world) to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever

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postwar
CH1
what nick wanted

50
Q

represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn

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Nick about gatsby

Ch1

51
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inclined to reserve all judgements

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Nick CH1

52
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people were not invited - they went there

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Gatsby party

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