The Great Gatsby Quotes

Question 1

“I’m inclined…

Answer 1

To reserve all judgements” Nick

Question 2

“Two shining arrogate eyes had established dominance over his face… Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes…

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could hide the enormous power of that body… It was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body” Nick of Tom

Question 3

“The only stationary object in the room was an enormous couch at which the two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon…

Answer 3

They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering.” Daisy and Jordan

Question 4

“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it…

Answer 4

Bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was ana excitement in her voice that men who cared for her found difficult to forget” Daisy

Question 5

“He stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way…

Answer 5

Involuntarily I glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing but except a single green light that might have been the end of a dock”‘gatsby

Question 6

“This is the valley of ashes - a fantastic far where ashes grow like wheat…

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Into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens”

Question 7

“The eyes of doctor T.J. eckleburg are blue and gigantic…

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Their retinas are one yard high.”

Question 8

“She was in her thirties and fairly stout…

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But carried her flesh sensuously as some women can”

Question 9

“Several old copies of town tattle…

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Lay on the table”

Question 10

“Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment…

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And as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smokey air”

Question 11

“He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes…

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And I couldn’t keep my eyes off him”

Question 12

“Making a short deft movement…

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Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”

Question 13

“With Jordan’s slender golden arm resting in mine…

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We descended the steps and sauntered about the garden”

Question 14

“You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody’s looking…

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At him. I’ll bet he’s killed a man”

Question 15

“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of reassurance in it…

Answer 15

That you may come across four or five times in life”

Question 16

“I wasn’t actually in love…

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But felt a sort of tender curiosity”

Question 17

“Dishonesty in a woman is never…

Answer 17

Something you blame deeply - I was casually sorry then I forgot”

Question 18

“The largest of the banners…

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And the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay’s house”

Question 19

“Next day at five o’clock she married…

Answer 19

Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver”

Question 20

“They moved with a fast crowd, aloof them young and rich and wild…

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But she came out with an absolutely perfect reputation”

Question 21

“He came alive to me…

Answer 21

Delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour”

Question 22

“Gatsby, pale as death, with his hand plunged like weights in his coat pockets…

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Was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes”

Question 23

“While the rain continued, it had seemed like…

Answer 23

The murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little now and then with gusts of emotion”

Question 24

“Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts…

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and began to cry stormily “they’re such beautiful shirts”

Question 25

“Possibly it had occurred to him that…

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The significance of that light had now vanished forever”

Question 26

“His imagination had never really accepted…

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Them as his parents at all”

Question 27

“Can’t repeat the past,…

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He cried incredulously, why of course you can!”

Question 28

“He knew that when he kissed this girl..

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And forever we’d his unutterable vision to her perishable breath, his mind would never again romp like the mind of God”

Question 29

“The next day was…

Answer 29

Broiling”

Question 30

“Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch…

Answer 30

Like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans”

Question 31

“As he left the room again she got up…

Answer 31

And went over to Gatsby and pulled his face down, kissing him on the mouth”

Question 32

“Afterword he kept looking at the child with surprise…

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I don’t think he ever really believed in its existence before”

Question 33

“She had told him she loved him…

Answer 33

And Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded”

Question 34

“Her voice is full of money’ he said suddenly…

Answer 34

That was it. I’d never understood it before, it was full of money. That inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals song of it… The golden girl”

Question 35

“Her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and…

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Mingled her thick, dark blood with the dust”

Question 36

“There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy…

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About the picture. And anybody would have said that they were conspiring together”

Question 37

“He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously…

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Eventually, he took Daisy one still October night, took her because he had no real right to touch her hand”

Question 38

“They’re a rotten crowd,’ I shouted across the lawn…

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You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”

Question 39

“I found myself on..

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Gatsby’s side and alone”

Question 40

“They were careless people Tom and Daisy…

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They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made”

Question 41

“So we beat on…

Answer 41

Boats against the currents, Bourne back ceaselessly into the past”