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