Wealth / Class Flashcards
“The youth…
And mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves… Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor”
“With the influence…
Of the dress her personality had undergone a change”
“Swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there”
“He borrowed…
Somebody’s best suit to get married in”
“He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes, and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him”
“Her voice…
Is full of money”
“Mr…
Nobody from Nowhere”
“She was appalled
by West Egg… it’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms… she saw something awful in the simplicity she failed to understand”
“A fantastic farm…
where ashes grow like wheat”
“Ashe grey men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air”
“It was an awful…
sight of money when it was all piled up… more than a body could tell what to do with”
“You’ve put on…
Considerable many frills since I been away… you think you’re better’n your father”
“It was a mighty…
nice family, and a mighty nice house”
“She could write
about anything you choose to give her to write about, just so it was sadful”
Mocking sentimentalism / romanticism
“You feel mighty…
free and easy and comfortable on a raft”
“Then we went loafing
about the town. The stores and houses were most all shackles, dried-up frame concerns that hadn’t even been painted”
