The Great Gatsby Flashcards
How is Gatsby’s and Daisy’s relationship presented?
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Gatsby is faithful “He would never so much as look at a friend’s wife.” However he “paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.”
When they first met she said “white an artificial note: ‘I certainly am awfully glad to see you’”
“he literally glowed”
“her throat, full of aching,grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.”
“You always look so cool” “She had told him that she loved him and Tom Buchanan saw.”
How was Gatsby’s love of Daisy an illusion?
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“he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.” He is obsessed/ has been for so long.
“paid a high price for live in. Too long with a single dream.”
“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams… because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.”
How does Nick describe Gatsby?
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“Great”
“represented everything for which I have unaffected scorn”
“Elegant roughneck”
“he was an Oxford man”
“I had one of those renewals of complete faith in him”
“Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.”
He had a “heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.”
He had “one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance”
What quotes show Tom and Daisy’s relationship?
“She married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver”
“I thought I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband.”
“It was touching to see them together”
“They weren’t happy, and yet they weren’t unhappy either.”
How is Nick and Jordan’s relationship presented?
“I enjoyed looking at her.”
“I liked to pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine… I was going to enter in to their lives, and no one would ever know”
“I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.”
What quotes show Wilson and Myrtle’s marriage?
“she carried her flesh senuously” “perceptive vitality” “continually smouldering”
“Neither of them can stand the person they’re married to.”
“He wasn’t fit to lick my shoe”
“His face was green”
“He was his wife’s man and not his own.”
“He was almost sure that Wilson had no friend: there was not enough of him for his wife”
What quote did Nick start the book off with and which one did he end with?
“Whenever you feel like criticising anyone… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
What quotes show social barriers in Great Gatsby?
“women run around too much these days”
“I’ll be damned if I see how you got within a mile of her”
“It’s up to us who are the dominant race”
“I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world”
