Who is the quote describing? (Great Gatsby) Flashcards

1
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“. . .a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most
domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere. . .”

A

East and West Eggs

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“. . . it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new
under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and
garden.

A

Gatsby’s Mansion

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3
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“. . .drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.”

A

Tom and Daisy

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4
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“. . .It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body.’”

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Toms body

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5
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“A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting
them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-colored rug,
making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.”

A

Tom’s house (living room)

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6
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“. . .the motor road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away
from a certain desolate area of land.”

A

Valley of Ashes

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7
Q

“. . .his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn
dumping ground.”

A

T.J Ecklburge

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8
Q

“I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-
dreamed—that voice was a deathless song.”

A

Daisy’s Voice

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“Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness—"

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Tom at Gatsby’s party

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10
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“. . .when she arrived she was stupid with liquor and unable to understand that the ambulance had already
gone to Flushing.”

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Catherine (Myrtles Sister)

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