The Great Gatsby Flashcards
FOOL
I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool . . . You see, I think everything’s terrible anyhow . . . And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.” - Daisy
MEDAL
To my astonishment, the thing had an authentic look - Nick
NICK NARRATOR
n my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” - Nick
ORGASTIC
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.- Nick
D’Invilliers
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!
BUNCH
“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
SHIRTS
“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.- Daisy
MONEY
“Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. - Gatsby
OVER
but he insisted with magnanimous scorn.
“Go on. He won’t annoy you. I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.” -Tom
LARGE PARTIES
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy - Jordan
MYRTLE DEATH
They saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath. The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long
GOD
“God sees everything,” repeated Wilson.
“That’s an advertisement,” Michaelis assured him
DAISY VALUE
It excited him too that many men had already loved Daisy—it increased her value in his eyes.
SOME NOBODY
I didn’t want you to think I was just some nobody. You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me - Gatsby
