'The Great Gatsby' Quotes Flashcards
Nick about Gatsby: “worth …
“worth the whole damn bunch together”
Nick to Gatsby: “So I walked …
“So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing”
Gatsby: “obscurely …
“obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over”
Gatsby: “son …
“son of God”
Gatsby: “he looked
“he looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man”
Nick about Gatsby: “he had one of …
“he had one of those rare smiles […] that you may come across across four or five times”
Gatsby’s American Dream: “Daisy tumbled …
” Daisy tumbled short of his dreams, not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion”
Nick about Gatsby’s Dream: “appalling …
“appalling sentimentality”
Gatsby: “Can’t repeat …
“Can’t repeat the past? […] Why of course you can!”
Gatsby’s American Dream: “green …
“green light”
Gatsby: Born James Gatz to …
“shiftless and unsuccessful farm people”
Nick: “I am one of …
“I am one of the few honest people I have ever known”
Nick: “advantages …
“advantages that you’ve had”
Daisy to daughter: “beautiful …
“beautiful little fool”
Daisy: “voice …
“voice is full of money”
Daisy: “cheerful …
“cheerful snobbery”
Daisy: “the King’s …
“the King’s daughter, the golden girl”
Daisy: “I’ve been …
“I’ve been everywhere and done everything”
Daisy: “Sophisticated …
“Sophisticated - God, I’m sophisticated”
Tom: “I’m stronger …
“I’m stronger and more of a man than you”
Tom’s affair: “got some …
“got some woman in New York”
Tom’s violence: “knuckle …
“knuckle was black and blue”
Tom’s violence: “brute …
“brute of a man”
Nick about Buchanans: “careless …
“careless people”
Jordan: “slender, small …
“slender, small breasted girl with an erect carriage”
Jordan: “bored …
“bored, haughty face”
Jordan: “universal …
“universal scepticism”
Myrtle: “tragic …
“tragic achievement”
Myrtle: “tremendous …
“tremendous vitality”
Myrtle’s death: “left breast …
“left breast was swinging loose like a flap”
George: “so dumb …
“so dumb he doesn’t even know he’s alive”
George: “un …
“unprosperous”
American Dream: “Tomorrow …
“Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther”
America: “a fresh …
“a fresh, green breast of the new world”
Community: “rotten …
“rotten crowd” + “bustling”
West Egg: “I lived at West Egg …
“I lived at West Egg, the - well, the least fashionable of the two”
West Egg: “vu …
“vulgar”
Lack of Respect: “ravages …
“ravages of the night before”
Eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg: “dimmed …
“dimmed a little by many pointless days”
Racism: “civilisation’s …
“civilisation’s going to pieces”
Novel: “savage …
“savage, frightening dreams”
Novel: “artificial …
“artificial world”
Novel motif: “elusive rhythm …
“elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago”
George: “an …
“anaemic” + “spiritless”
Wolfsheim: “Why …
“‘Why isn’t he in jail?’ ‘They can’t get him old sport. He’s a smart man’”
Gatsby’s Dream: “foul dust …
“foul dust [that] floated in the wake of his dreams”
Old vs New Money: “East egg …
“East egg condescending to West Egg”
Valley of Ashes: “desolate …
“desolate area of land”
Gatsby’s Wealthy: “colo …
“colossal mansion” that “celebrated people” from the “ravages of the night before”
Tom: “cruel …
“cruel body”
George: “his …
“his wife’s man”
Tom: “two shining …
“two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively”
Gatsby’s Wealth: “Every Friday …
“Every Friday, five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York”
Gatsby’s obsession with past: “He talked …
“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy”
Nick to Daisy: “just tell him …
“just tell him the truth - that you never loved him - and it’s all wiped out forever”
