The Great Gatsby - Quotations Flashcards
“Less fashionable of the two, though this is a superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little contrast between them”
“fashionable” = pre-modifying adjective
“less” = adverb = clear divide between status and expectation of the two eggs. Less significant Egg.
“tag” = noun = connotations to price tag = attach value to materialistic things = they see value as money.
Narrator is unreliable as he portrays to be repulsed by materialistic object, but is also attracted to it.
“sinister” = adjective = context = old money vs new sinister money. Element of foreshadowing the crime at the end of the novel. Corruption of mortality.
“A tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy”
“thin” = adjective = emphasise how new his money really is = West Egg.
“tower” = castle = castle as a house is like a movie set = golden age and rise of hollywood/film = context.
“The one on my right was a colossal affair by an standard - it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy”
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“across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water”
“glitter” = magic = Gatsby in trans of the life they live.
“a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion”
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“the lawn started at the beach and ran towards the front door for a quarter of a mile”
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“french windows, glowing now with reflected gold”
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find quotation about Buchanans thick ivy
“desolate area of land”
(secondary quotation)
“this is a valley of Ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens”
“where ashes take the forms of houses”
“ash grey men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery
= death of American dream + T.J eckleberg eyes
