Great Gatsby Flashcards
Daisy Chapter 1 Daughter
“thats the best thing that can happen to a girl in this world” (a fool)
Nick’s ancestry Chapter 1
“Carraways are of a clan, we’re descended from the Duke Buccleuch”
Nick Chapter 1 finidng vailidation
“I was lonely no longer, I was a guide”
West Egg Chapter 1 description according to Nick
“least fashionable of the two”
“one of the strangest communities in North America”
Chapter 1 Gatsby home description (superficial)
“factual imitation of Hotel de Ville Normandy”
Chapter 1 Tom Buchanan success description
“reached an actue limited excellence at 21 that everything afterward savors of anti-climax”
Chapter 1 Tom Buchanan Physical description
‘A body capable of enormous leverage–a cruel body’
‘arrogant eyes’
Chapter 1 Buchanans home descriptions
‘White Georgian Colonial mansion’
‘Italian Garden’
‘French Window’
Chapter 1 Jordan Daisy physical innocence
‘They were both in white
Chapter 1 Daisy description (charismatic)
‘a charming little laugh’
‘promosing that there was no one in the world she wanted to see more’
Chapter 1 Tom’ dissimal of Nick’s profession’
‘Never Heard of them’ he remarked decisively
This anoyed me
Chapter 1 Tom’s view on race and change
lowk -eugenics
‘Civilation is going to pieces’
‘Reading rise of the coloured empires’
‘The white race will be
submergerd’
Tom’s infidelity revaled in Chapter one dinner (said by Jordan)
‘Tom’s got some Woman in New York’ (Myrtle Wilson)
