The Great Gatsby Flashcards
‘He’s a bootlegger…’
‘He’s a bootlegger,’ said one of the ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers.’
‘One time he killed a man…’
One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.’
‘It was a eich cream color…’
‘It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length’
‘I had talked with him…’
‘I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the last month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say’
‘And with this doubt…’
‘And with this doubt his whole statement fell to pieces and I wondered if there wasnt something a little sinister about him after all’
‘With an effort…’
‘With an effort I managed to restrain my incredulous laughter’
‘The very phrases were…’
‘The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned ‘character’’
‘To my astonishment…’
‘To my astonishment, the thing had an authentic look’
‘With fenders spread like…’
‘With fenders spread like wings we scattered light through half Astoria’
‘Taking a white card…’
‘Taking a white card from his wallet he waved it before the mans eyes’
‘I was able to do…’
‘I was able to do the commissioner a favor once’
‘With the city rising up across the river…’
‘With the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money’
‘A small, flat-nosed jew raised his…’
‘A small, flat-nosed jew raised his large head and refarded me with two fine growths of hair which luxuriated in wither nostril’
‘After a moment I..’
‘After a moment I discovered his tiny eyes in the half darkness’
‘There was the smile…’
‘There was the smile again, but this time I held out againts it’
