The Great Gatsby Flashcards
1
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In my younger…
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And more vulnerable years
2
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Gatsby, who represented everything for which…
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I have unaffected scorn
3
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It is what preyed in Gatsby, what…
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Foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams
4
Q
To see two old friends whom…
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I scarcely knew at all
5
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Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could…
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Hide the enormous power of that body
6
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They were both in white, and their dresses were…
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Rippling a fluttering
7
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‘Do they miss me?’ She cried…
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Ecstatically
8
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‘Gatsby?’ Demanded Daisy…
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‘What Gatsby?’
9
Q
You must know…
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Gatsby
10
Q
Brute…
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Of a man
11
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It’s all scientific…
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Stuff
12
Q
You remind me of a…
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Rose. An absolute rose.
13
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I though everyone knew
‘Toms got some …
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Woman in new York’
14
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I’ve had a very bad time nick…
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I’m pretty cynical about everything
15
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That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world…
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A beautiful little fool
16
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I had no intention of…
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Being rumoured into marriage
17
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I could have sworn he was…
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Trembling
18
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I want you to meet…
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My girl
19
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He was a blonde…
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Spiritless man, anaemia and faintly handsome
20
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He’s so dumb…
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He doesn’t know he’s alive
21
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Here’s you money…
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Go buy ten more dogs with it
22
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I’ve been drunk
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Just twice in my life
23
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Making a short deft movement
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Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand
24
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Men and girls came and went
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Like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars
25
A tray of cocktails floated at us
Through the twilight
26
Somebody told me they thought he
Killed a man
27
Muttering that if one book was removed
The whole library was liable to collapse
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He smiled understandingly... it was one of those rare smiles with a quality of
Eternal reassurance in it
29
I wasnt actually in love but I felt a sort of
Tender curiosity
30
Dishonesty in a woman
Is something you never blame deeply
31
She was incurably
Dishonest
32
I hate careless people
That’s why I like you
33
I’m one of the few
Honest people I have ever known
34
I was able to do the commissioner
A favour once
35
I discovered his tiny
Eyes in the half darkness
36
Finest specimens of
Human molars
37
Gatsby is very careful about woman. He would never do much
Look at a friends wife
38
He’s the one who fixed the
World Series back in 1919
39
N meets T ‘I’ve been haven’t lunch with mr Gatsby’
I turned towards Gatsby but
He was no longer there
40
Drunk as a
Monkey
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He wants her to
See his house
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I had no girl whose disembodied
Face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so i drew up the girl beside me
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The day agreed upon was
Pouring with rain
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He was pale and there were dark signs of
Sleeplessness beneath his eyes
45
Her throat, full of
Aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy
46
Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began
To cry stormily
47
Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of
That light had now vanished for ever
48
His count of enchanted objects had
Diminished by one
49
I had reached the point of believing everything
And nothing about him
50
He wanted to go and he didn’t see that
Mr Sloane has determined he shouldn’t
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If you want to take down any addresses here’s
My little gold pencil
52
‘Can’t repeat the past?’ He cried
Incredulously. ‘Why if course you can!’
53
At his lips touch she
Blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete
54
Bles-
Sed pre-cious
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I don’t think he ever really believed in
It’s existence before
56
You dream, you
You’d absolute little dream
57
What will we do with ourselves this afternoon
And the day after that and the next thirty years
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But it’s so hot and every thing is so confused...You always look so cool... she had told him that she loved him and
Tom buchanan saw
59
He got up, his eyes still flashing between
Gatsby and his wife
60
Her voice is
Full of money
61
Tom was feeling the hot whips
Of panic. His wife and his mistress... were slipping precipitately from his control
62
She never
Loved you do you hear
63
Oh you want
Too much
64
The words seemed to bite
Physically into Gatsby
65
Going faster’n 40, going
50,60
66
She ran out ina road
Son of a bitch didn’t even stop us car
67
I heard a low husky sob
And saw that the tears were overflowing down his face
68
It’s better that the shock should all come at once
She stood it pretty well
69
So I walked away and left him standing there in the moon light
Watching over nothing
70
There was a inexplicable amount of
Dust everywhere
71
Artificial
World
72
They’re a rotten crowd
Your worth the whole damn bunch put together
73
It was the only compliment I ever gave him because I
Disapproved if him from beginning to end
74
You may fool me
But you can’t fool god
75
The eyes of t j evkleburg which had just emerged
Pale and enormous from the dissolving night
76
What a grotesque thing a
Rose is
77
The holocaust was
Complete
78
So Wilson was reduced to a man
Deranged by grief
79
His eyes leaked continuously with
Excitement
80
His grief began to be mixed with an
Awed pride
81
Start him!
I made him
82
I’m five years too old to
Lie to myself and call it honour
83
Angry and
Half in love with her
84
Your crazy nick
Crazy as hell
85
He threw dust into your eyes
Just like he did in Daisy’s
86
There was nothing I could say other than
The unutterable fact that it wasn’t true
87
They were careless people, Tom and daisy- they
Smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money
88
Let other people clean up
The mess they had made
89
Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of
The earth and didn’t know that the party was over
90
His dream must have seemed so close that he could
Hardly fail to grasp it
91
Gatsby believed in the
Green light
92
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out
Our arms further
93
Boats against the
Current
94
“For daisy a man is
The shirt he wears”
95
Her life violently
Extinguished
96
Mingled her thick dark blood
With the dust
97
the two young women slowly
ballooned to the floor
98
I enjoyed
looking at the her
99
T and D move around 'wherever
people played polo and were rich together'
100
wear the gold
hat (epigraph)- money key to winning object of desire
101
high in a white palace, the kings daughter,
the golden girl
102
defunct mantlepiece clock... to tilt
dangerously at the pressure of his head... caught it with trembling fingers
