TTG Quotes Flashcards
Gatsby (11)
-“can’t repeat the past? why of course you can!”
-“imitation of some classy hotel de ville”
-“old sport”
-“rich cream colour”
-“elaborate from of speech just came short of being absurd”
-“men and girls came like moths”
-“beautiful shirts”
-“poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air”
-“daisy tumbled short of his dream ….because the colossal vitality of his illusion”
-“she only married you cause I was poor”
-“watching over nothing”
-“he took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously- eventually he took Daisy”
Nick (4)
-“life is much more successfully looked at through a single window”
-“there are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired”
-‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past’
-“And yet there was something gorgeous about him”
Tom (10)
-“the white race will be utterly submerged”
-“I want you to meet my girl”
-“some big bootlegger”
-“mr nobody from nowhere”
-“white palaces”
-“gleaming white”
-“Drifted”
-“such an acute limited excellence……everything afterwards savours of anticlimax.”
-“certainly not for a common swindler who’d have to steal the ring he put on her finger”
-“They were careless people”
Daisy (7)
-“a beautiful little fool”
-“her voice was like a wild tonic in the rain”
-“her voice compelled me forward”
-“I think everything’s terrible anyhow”
-“what’ll we do tomorrow … next thirty years”
-“her voice is full of money”
“i’ve been everywhere, seen everything, and done everything”
-“her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like tom’s”
Myrtle (5)
-“there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her”
-“I want to get one of those dogs,” she said earnestly. “I want to get one for the apartment. They’re nice to have—a dog.”
-“He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes, and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him…”
-“I thought he knew something about breeding”
-“you can’t live forever, you can’t live forever”
-“her left breast swinging loose like a flap”
George Wilson (8)
-“blonde spiritless man, anaemic and faintly handsome” -“mingling ..with the cement coloured wall”
-“wiping his hands on waste”
-“old dust covered ford”
-“as if he were a ghost”
-“there was not enough of him for his wife.”
-“when he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes”
-“Picking up Wilson like a doll”
-“the holocaust was complete” (hyperbole pre ww2 of lower class)
-“ashes grow like wheat”
Jordan Baker
-“fast” reputation and life
-“incurably dishonest”
-“deeply blames”
-“intimate” (comment on parties)
