The Great Gatsby

Question 1

a sense of fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

Answer 1

1:3

Question 2

No - Gatsby turned out all right in the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

Answer 2

1:4

Question 3

‘well-rounded man’. This isn’t just an epigram - life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

Answer 3

1:5

Question 4

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterwards savours of anticlimax (tom)

Answer 4

1:6

Question 5

I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.

Answer 5

1:10

Question 6

I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Answer 6

1:13

Question 7

walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking flush in the eye

Answer 7

1:18

Question 8

she let four taxicabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-coloued with grey upholstery (Daisy)

Answer 8

1:18

Question 9

I like your dress….Mrs Wilson rejected the compliment…It’s just this crazy old thing

Answer 9

1:21

Question 10

why go on living with them if they can’t stand them? I’d get a divorce and get married to each other right away. (Catherine: tom and mrtyle)

Answer 10

2:23

Question 11

meetings with women who never knew each other’s names

seizes a cocktail out of the air

Answer 11

3:27

Question 12

Englishmen looking a little hungry…aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for the taking

Answer 12

3:28

Question 13

[gatsby] German spy during the war
American army during the war
I’ll bet he killed a man

Answer 13

3:29

Question 14

this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity…East Egg condescending to West Egg

Answer 14

3:29

Question 15

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library

Answer 15

3:30

Question 16

old men pushing young girls backwards…superior couples holding each other tortuously

By midnight the hilarity had increased

Champagne was served in glasses bigger than finger bowls

Answer 16

3:31

Question 17

I’d got the impression that he was picking his words with care

Answer 17

3:32

Question 18

I like large parties. They’re so intimate. (Jordan)

Answer 18

3:33

Question 19

satisfaction that the CONSTANT FLICKER of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye

enchanted metropolitan twilight

(caps ongoing mentions)

Answer 19

3:37

Question 20

I hate careless people. That’s why I like you (J > N)

Answer 20

3:39

Question 21

old sport (even refers to Daisy like this)

Answer 21

4:41

Question 22

Gatsby’s very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friend’s wife (Mr Wolfshein)

Answer 22

4:47

Question 23

At night when you’re asleep

Into your tent I’ll creep

Answer 23

4:50

Question 24

When I came home to West Egg I was afraid for a moment my house was on fire (lit up from Gatsby’s house party lights)

Answer 24

5:52

Question 25

Daisy’s voice on a clear artificial note: I certainly am awfully glad to see you again

Answer 25

5:55

Question 26

You’re acting like a little boy (N > G)

Answer 26

5:56

Question 27

The rich get richer and the poor get - children

Answer 27

5:61

Question 28

James Gatz…legally…changed it at the age of seventeen

Platonic conception of himself (image to woo Daisy

But his heart was a constant, turbulent riot

Answer 28

6:63

Question 29

I had reached the point of believning everything and nothing about him

Answer 29

6:65

Question 30

pale, thin ray of moonlight between

Answer 30

6:68

Question 31

Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!

Answer 31

6:70

Question 32

Gatsby stood in the centre of the crimson carpet and gazed around with fascinated eyes.

Answer 32

7:73

Question 33

You look so cool (D > G)

Her voice is full of money (Gatsby)

Answer 33

7: 75
7: 76

Question 34

You can buy almost anything in a drugstore nowadays (T > G)

Answer 34

7:77

Question 35

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic.

Answer 35

7:79

Question 36

in her heart she never loved anyone execpt me!

Answer 36

7:83

Question 37

she was drawing further and further into herself, so that he gave up, and only the dead dream thought on

Answer 37

7:86

Question 38

mingled her thick dark blood with the dust…left breast swinging loose like a flap

Answer 38

7:88

Question 39

He couldn’t possibly leave Daisy…clutching at some last hope

He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously, because he had ni real right to touch her hand (G flashback)

Answer 39

8:94/95

Question 40

She had caught a cold, and it made her voice huskier and more charming than ever…Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor

Answer 40

8:95

Question 41

Cold fall day…her cheeks flushed..afternoon had been made tranquil, to give deep memory [of folloeing parting]

Answer 41

8:95

Question 42

quality of nervous despair in Daisy’s letters…feeling the pressure of the world outside

decision must be made by some force - of love, money

Answer 42

8:96

Question 43

I remember the rest of that day, and that night and the next day, only as an endless drill

Most reports were a nightmare - grotesque, circumstantial, eager and untrue…served up in a racy pasquinade

Answer 43

9: 103
9: 104

Question 44

bery important business (Meyer Wolfshein funeral excuse)

Answer 44

9:105

Question 45

Gatsby believed in the green light

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

Answer 45

9:115