The Great Gatsby Flashcards
a sense of fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
1:3
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.
1:4
‘well-rounded man’. This isn’t just an epigram - life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
1:5
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterwards savours of anticlimax (tom)
1:6
I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.
1:10
I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
1:13
walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking flush in the eye
1:18
she let four taxicabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-coloued with grey upholstery (Daisy)
1:18
I like your dress….Mrs Wilson rejected the compliment…It’s just this crazy old thing
1:21
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)
2:23
meetings with women who never knew each other’s names
seizes a cocktail out of the air
3:27
Englishmen looking a little hungry…aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced it was theirs for the taking
3:28
[gatsby] German spy during the war
American army during the war
I’ll bet he killed a man
3:29
this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity…East Egg condescending to West Egg
3:29
I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library
3:30
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
3:31
I’d got the impression that he was picking his words with care
3:32
I like large parties. They’re so intimate. (Jordan)
3:33
satisfaction that the CONSTANT FLICKER of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye
enchanted metropolitan twilight
(caps ongoing mentions)
3:37
I hate careless people. That’s why I like you (J > N)
3:39
old sport (even refers to Daisy like this)
4:41
Gatsby’s very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friend’s wife (Mr Wolfshein)
4:47
At night when you’re asleep
Into your tent I’ll creep
4:50
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)
5:52
Daisy’s voice on a clear artificial note: I certainly am awfully glad to see you again
5:55
You’re acting like a little boy (N > G)
5:56
The rich get richer and the poor get - children
5:61
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
6:63
I had reached the point of believning everything and nothing about him
6:65
pale, thin ray of moonlight between
6:68
Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!
6:70
Gatsby stood in the centre of the crimson carpet and gazed around with fascinated eyes.
7:73
You look so cool (D > G)
Her voice is full of money (Gatsby)
7: 75
7: 76
You can buy almost anything in a drugstore nowadays (T > G)
7:77
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic.
7:79
in her heart she never loved anyone execpt me!
7:83
she was drawing further and further into herself, so that he gave up, and only the dead dream thought on
7:86
mingled her thick dark blood with the dust…left breast swinging loose like a flap
7:88
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)
8:94/95
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
8:95
Cold fall day…her cheeks flushed..afternoon had been made tranquil, to give deep memory [of folloeing parting]
8:95
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
8:96
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
9: 103
9: 104
bery important business (Meyer Wolfshein funeral excuse)
9:105
Gatsby believed in the green light
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
9:115
