The Great Gatsby Flashcards
What are the 7 key quotes for Chapter 1
“What foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams”
“Two shining arrogant eyes…leaning aggressively forward”
“They were both in white”
“Watch out or these other races will have control of things”
“her voice compelled me forward breathlessly”
“I hope she’ll be a fool, thats the best thing a girl can be in this world”
“A single green light minute and far away”
What are the 2 key quotes of Chapter 2
“men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air”
” Making a short deft movement tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”
What are the 4 key quotes from Chapter 3
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths”
“He was a German spy during the war”
“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it”
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known”
What are the key quotes from Chapter 4
‘To my astonishment, the thing had an authentic look.’
‘Finest specimens of human molars,’ he informed me.’
she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver’
What are the key quotes of Chapter 5
“The day agreed upon was pouring rain.’
“silver shirt and gold-coloured tie”
‘There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams… because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.’
What are the key quotes of Chapter 6 (Part 1)
“the yacht represented all the beauty and glamor in the world”
What are the quotes of Chapter 6 (Part 3)
“The rest offended her…she was appalled by West egg”
“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’’
“Can’t repeat the past?’.. ‘Why of course you can!’’
What are the 3 Key quotes of Chapter 7 (Part 1)
“The next day was broiling”
“weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans.”
“He got up, his eyes still flashing between Gatsby and his wife”
What are the 4 key quotes of Chapter 7 (Part 2)
“I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.’’
“her life violently extinguished… her thick, dark blood with the dust”
“anybody would have said that they were conspiring together”
“standing there in the moonlight—watching over nothing.’
What are the key quotes of Chapter 8
“Jay Gatsby’ had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice’”
“paid a high price for living too long with a single dream”
“‘With little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves’,
What are the 3 key quotes of Chapter 9
“she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon”
“they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money”
“Gatsby believed in the green light”
What are the 2 main things that happen in chapter 1
- Nick goes to dinner at the Buchanan’s
- Nick sees Gatsby at he dock
What are the 2 main things that happen in chapter 2
- Nick goes to the city with Tom
-They stop at the valley of ashes
What are the 3 main things that happen in chapter 3
- Nick goes to one of Gatsby’s parties, where their are rumours about him
- We meet Gatsby, who has an eternal smile
- The blue gardens are highlighted
What are the 2 main things that happen in chapter 4
- Nick and Gatsby go to lunch in new York, where they meet Meyer Wolfsheim
- Jordan describes tom and daisy’s wedding day to nick
What are the 2 main things that happen in chapter 5
- Gatsby and daisy meet which is orchestrated by nick
-Nick wonders whether Daisy can live up to Gatsby’s dream of her
What are the 2 main things that happen in chapter 6
-Nick deviates from his plan to tell the events chronologically and tells the story of Gatsby and dan Cody
- Daisy and tom attend Gatsby’s party, she is appalled and Gatsby is upset he cant repeat the past
What are the 2 main things that happen in chapter 7 (part 1)
- On the hottest day of the summer, Nick goes for lunch at Tom and Daisy’s. He finds Gatsby and Jordan Baker there as well.
- Tom finds out as he sees the look Gatsby and daisy give each other
What are the 2 main things that happen in chapter 7 (part 2)
- They all drive to the plaza in the city
-Tom sends Daisy back to Long Island with Gatsby to prove Gatsby’s inability to hurt him, where they hit myrtle
-Gatsby waits outside for daisy
What are the 2 main things that happen in chapter 8
- Nick describes Gatsby’s hamartia of being a dreamer, and toms effect on him
- George kills Gatsby then himself
What are the 3 main things that happen in chapter 9
-Writing two years after Gatsby’s death, Nick describes the events that surrounded the funeral.
- Just before leaving he encounters Tom
-On his last night in West Egg before moving back to Minnesota, Nick walks over to Gatsby’s empty mansion describing the American dream
Describe “the roaring twenties” for AO3
Post war America, Jazz music, free flowing liquor
Describe bootlegging for AO3
1919-1933 Alcohol was banned (prohibition)
-This caused bootlegging (illegal manufacture and sale of alcohol)
-Prohibition made millionaires out of bootleggers (growth of west egg, new money)
Describe the “Valley of the ashes” for AO3
- symbolism of the working class
- refuse tip for cities waste
Describe racism for AO3
- In the 1920’s most of America lived under Jim crow, a series of laws and social codes that forced black and white segregation
Describe the American dream for AO3
- It states that anyone regardless of their class can obtain success in a society where wealth is accessible for everyone, but is achieved through hard work & sacrifice
- Fitzgerald portrays that this is false as there is no success for people born in poverty
What are the key settings for AO2
East egg, West egg, Valley of the ashes
What are the 5 main motifs for AO2
- Blue of Gatsby’s house
- Green light (symbol of hope)
- Aggressive Lexis (Tom)
- Daisy’s voice
- Facades
What are the tragedies foreshadowed
- Daisy’s unattainability
- Gatsby’s fate “foul dust”
- Automobiles for myrtles death
- Shifts in time and place
- Dialogue
- Gatsby’s illegal activity
