Great Gatsby: Short-term/hollow Relationships

Question 1

Abortive sorrows

Answer 1

Abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men

C1, P3

Question 2

Casual innuendo

Answer 2

The air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names

C3, P27

Question 3

Swell, dissolve and form

Answer 3

The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath

C3, P27

Question 4

Superior couples, torturously

Answer 4

Old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other torturously, fashionably, and keeping in the corners - a great number of single girls dancing individualistically

C3, P31

Question 5

Tom’s reaction to Myrtle’s death

Answer 5

As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases

C7, P91

Question 6

Daisy - you want too much

Answer 6

[Daisy] “Oh, you want too much! she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now - isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once - but I loved you too.”

C7, P84

Question 7

Describing Daisy accepting Tom’s proposal

Answer 7

Doubtless there was a certain struggle and a certain relief

C8, P96

Question 8

Description after Gatsby’s death

Answer 8

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about …. like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding towards him through the amorphous trees

C8, P103

Question 9

A random partygoer is informed about Gatsby’s death

Answer 9

There was a long silence on the other end of the wire, followed by an exclamation … then a quick squark as the connection was broken

C9, P 106

Question 10

Meyer Wolfsheim explaining why he isn’t attending Gatsby’s funeral

Answer 10

When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out.

C9, P109

Question 11

Jordan’s reaction to her relationship w Nick ending

Answer 11

“You threw me over on the telephone. I don’t give a damn about you now, but it was a new experience for me, and I felt a little dizzy for a while.”

C9, P113

Question 12

Jordan talking about driving

Answer 12

“You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn’t I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person.”

C9, P113

Question 13

Gatsby’s funeral

Answer 13

“Nobody came.”

C9, P111

Question 14

Nick’s break-up with Jordan

Answer 14

I don’t know which of us hung up with a sharp click, but I know I didn’t care. I couldn’t have talked to her across a tea-table that day if I never talked to her again in this world

C8, P99