Great Gatsby: Damaged Relationships

Question 1

Following the phone call from Myrtle which disrupts the dinner

Answer 1

Among the broken fragments of the last five minutes at the table

C1, P12

Question 2

Description of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg

Answer 2

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

C2, P16

Question 3

Wilson ghost quote

Answer 3

Myrtle smiled slowly, and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost, shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye.

C2, P18

Question 4

Fights at the party

Answer 4

Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands. Even Jordan’s party, the quartet from East Egg, were rent asunder by dissension

C3, P34

Question 5

Wilson talking about Myrtle being locked up

Answer 5

“I’ve got my wife locked up there” explained Wilson calmly. “She’s going to stay there till the day after tomorrow, and then we’re moving away.

C7, P87

Question 6

Tom and Daisy - careless description

Answer 6

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

C9, P114