The Great Gatsby Flashcards
“He came…
alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour”
“Can’t repeat…
the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!”
“With every…
word, she was drawing further and further into herself”
“He spoke as…
if Daisy’s reaction was the only thing that happened”
“It ripped…
her open’ - ‘don’t tell me old sport.’ He winced. ‘Anyhow, Daisy stepped on it.’”
“Luckily,…
the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers”
“He must have looked…
up at the unfamiliar sky…and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is”
“Stretching…
out his arms toward the dark water” and how he “could have sworn he was trembling”
“Spanking…
new under a thin beard of raw ivy”
“Nothing except…
a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of a dock”
“Down the…
marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together”
“Hot…
and stifling”
“The next…
day was broiling”
“Call up…
and order some ice for the mint julep”
“Thick, dark…
blood mingling with the dust of the valley”
