The Great Gatsby -- Quotes Flashcards
As my father snobbishly suggested… (Nick)
and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth
Gatsby, who represented (Nick)…
everything for which I have unaffected scorn
Extraordinary… (Nick)
gift for hope
West egg… (Nick)
the less fashionable of the two
white palaces…
of fashionable east egg
silver
idols
He was a sturdy straw haired man… (about Tom)
with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner
Her face was… (About daisy)
sad and lovely with bright things in it
there was an excitement in her voice… (about daisy)
that men who cared for her found difficult to forget
do they miss me?… (daisy)
how gorgeous (after Nick tells her they do)
Do you always watch…(daisy)
for the longest day and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day and then miss it
then the glow… (Ab. Daisy)
faded, each light deserting her face with lingering regret
I turned my head away and wept… (Daisy)
“Im glad its a girl, and I hope she’ll be a fool –That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”
Tom was… (Daisy)
God knows where
fifth guest’s
shrill metallic urgency
distinguished nothing ….
except a single green light
This is a valley…
of ashes
ash grey men…
who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air
He was a blond (About Wilson)
spiritless man.. when he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprung into his eyes
the eyes of Dr. T J Eckleburg…
blue and gigantic
furniture…
entirely too large for it … over-enlarged
“Neither of them can stand… (Catherine)
the person they’re married to”
I was a little shocked…
at the elaborateness of the lie (daisy being catholic)
yellow windows must have contributed….
to their share of human secrecy
I was within…
and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life
“All I kept thinking was…(Myrtle)
you can’t live forever, you can’tDiso live forever”
Men and girls…
came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars
i’ll be
he’s killed a man
romantic
speculation
it was one of those rare smiles…
you may come across four or five times in your life
I like large parties (JOrdan)
they’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy
Dishonestly in a woman is something…
you never blame deeply
Gatsby’s very careful about women… (Wolfsheim)
he would never so much look at a friend’s wife.
She married Tom Buchanan… (Jordan)
with more pomp and circumstance than louisville ever knew before
“it makes me sad… (Daisy)
because i’ve never seen such beautiful shirts before
possibly it had occurred to him that…
the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever… and his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one
There must have been moments even that afternoon…
when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion
That voice (daisy’s)
was a deathless song
He was a…
son of God
he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby…
that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful till the end.
Cant repeat the past? (Gatsby…)
why of course you can
his mind would never romp again…
like the mind of god
he kept looking at the child with surprise…
I dont think he had ever really believed in its existence before
Her voice is…
full of money
That was the inexhaustible charm…
that rose and fell in it… High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl
so we drove on…
towards death through the cooling twilight
the mouth was wide open…
as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long
watching over…
nothing (daisy’s house)
they’re a rotten crowd…
you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together
“you may fool me but you can’t fool God… (Wilson)
“god sees everything” (looking at the eyes of Dr T j Eckleburg)
paid a high price…
for living too long with a single dream
Wilson’s body a little way off in the grass…
and the holocaust was complete
but it wasnt any use…
nobody came
his dream must have seemed so close …
that he could hardly fail to grasp it, he did not know that it was already behind him
Gatsby believed in the green light..
the orgastic future that year by year recedes us, it eluded us then but that’s no matter
so we beat on, boats against the current….
borne back, ceaselessly into the past.
