The Great Gatsby quotes

Question 1

Nick on his judgements

Answer 1

‘I’m inclined to reserve all judgements.’

Question 2

Nick on the position of birth

Answer 2

‘Parcelled out unequally at birth.’

Question 3

Gatsby’s unique

Answer 3

‘Only Gatsby.’

Question 4

Hope from Nick in the beginning

Answer 4

‘Life was beginning over again.’

Question 5

Tom being corrupt and possessive about Myrtle

Answer 5

‘I want you to meet my girl.’

Question 6

Myrtle treating her husband badly

Answer 6

‘Walking through her husband.’

Question 7

Nick bettering himself

Answer 7

‘I was actually invited.’

Question 8

The dog in the hotel room

Answer 8

‘Looking with blind eyes.’

Question 9

Gatsby’s respect for women shown when Wolfsheim says,

Answer 9

‘Gatsby’s very careful about women.’

Question 9

Jordan boosting Nick’s status

Answer 9

Jordan’s ‘Slender golden arm’

Question 10

Jordan ironically says

Answer 10

‘It takes two to make an accident.’

Question 11

Tom is restless and

Answer 11

‘Never quite still.’

Question 12

Jordan is different and walks,

Answer 12

‘Half on the side walks, half on the lawns.’

Question 13

Gatsby loving look at Daisy

Answer 13

He ‘Looked at Daisy…in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime.’

Question 14

Daisy is pure and arguably better

Answer 14

‘Perhaps because she doesn’t drink.’

Question 15

Gatsby’s obsession with Daisy shown as

Answer 15

‘Gatsby bought the house so Daisy could be just across the bay.’

Question 16

Gatsby waiting for Daisy

Answer 16

he had ‘Waited five years.’

Question 17

Gatsby knows that Daisy is materialistic

Answer 17

‘He wants her to see his house.’

Question 18

Nick helping Gatsby, slight corruption.

Answer 18

‘Don’t bring Tom.’

Question 18

Daisy calling him Jay shows their closeness

Answer 18

‘I’m glad Jay.’

Question 18

Society categorised as

Answer 18

‘There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.’

Question 19

Gatsby’s irony as he’s been waiting 5 years

Answer 19

‘I can’t wait all day.’

Question 19

Gatsby has been counting the days since he last saw Daisy.

Answer 19

‘5 years next November.’

Question 20

Time is getting away from them

Answer 20

‘He was running down like an over-wound clock.’

Question 20

Gatsby's love for Daisy is reignited

Answer 20

'He literally glowed.'

Question 21

Now he has somewhat attained Daisy, the magic is gone

Answer 21

'The colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.'

Question 22

Society stuck in the routine of

Answer 22

'The rich get richer, and the poor get- children.'

Question 23

Gatsby challenging Tom

Answer 23

'I know your wife.'

Question 24

Ironic from Tom as he does the same

Answer 24

'Women run around too much these days to suit me.'

Question 25

Daisy defending Gatsby, bettering him

Answer 25

'He's too polite to object.'

Question 26

Contrasts later on when her voice is described as full of money. The first negative description of her voice.

Answer 26

'Her voice struggled on through the heat.'

Question 26

Metaphor of the ladder, Gatsby can't have love and success

Answer 26

'If he climbs alone.'

Question 27

The love between Daisy and Gatsby

Answer 27

'They stared together at each other, alone in space.'

Question 28

Jordan portrays society's cluelessness about the working class.

Answer 28

'When everyone's away.' is when the working class are working.

Question 29

Shows Daisy taking control but her purity is fading as she wants to drink.

Answer 29

'Open the whisky, Tom, she ordered'

Question 30

Tom is angrier that Gatsby is a no body

Answer 30

'Mr nobody from nowhere make love to your wife.'

Question 31

Gatsby being controlling and putting words in her mouth

Answer 31

'She's never loved you. She loves me.'

Question 32

Materialism, it was because Tom was richer

Answer 32

'Because I was poor.'

Question 33

Motif of looking but not seeing

Answer 33

'She looked at him blindly.'

Question 34

The car was supposed to be Myrtle's way to freedom but it confines her forever.

Answer 34

'Death car'

Question 35

Tom talks excitedly thinking the crash won't effect him but it does

Answer 35

'Tom excitedly.'

Question 36

Gatsby's addiction to the dream

Answer 36

'He couldn't possibly leave Daisy.' 'Clutching'

Question 37

Foreshadows Daisy's actions at the end of the novel

Answer 37

'She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life.'

Question 38

Daisy is content in her life

Answer 38

'Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.'

Question 39

Gatsby is praised for killing people but now he is punished

Answer 39

'He did extraordinary well in the war.'

Question 40

Shows that relationships are meaningless in rich society

Answer 40

'Fresh faces drifted here and there.'

Question 41

Gatsby is too busy to indulge in the life that he made for himself

Answer 41

'I've never used that pool all summer.'

Question 42

Gatsby is still hopeful about Daisy

Answer 42

'I suppose Daisy will call too.'

Question 43

Nick describing society and putting Gatsby above them

Answer 43

'They're a rotten crowd' 'You're worth the whole damn bunch of them put together.'

Question 44

Nick gives up on 'reserving all judgments'

Answer 44

'I disapproved of him from beginning to end.'

Question 45

Gatsby's smile is his hope

Answer 45

'That radiant and understanding smile.'

Question 46

His hope remains as well as his dream

Answer 46

'Concealing his incorruptible dream.'

Question 47

Wilson thinks the advert of T J Eccelsberg is God

Answer 47

'You may fool me, but you can't fool God.'

Question 48

Gatsby is like Jesus carrying the cross by himself, Gatsby with the matress

Answer 48

'Gatsby shouldered the mattress.'

Question 49

Nick and Gatsby are close but alone

Answer 49

'Found myself on Gatsby's side, and alone.'

Question 50

Nick and Gatsby alone again, Nick supporting him throughout.

Answer 50

'Gatsby and me against them all.'

Question 51

Motif of looking but not seeing. He is trying to refresh what he is seeing.

Answer 51

'He took off his glasses and wiped them again.'

Question 52

End of the Jazz age

Answer 52

'Didn't know that the party was over.'