Great Gatsby: Love of Objects or Things

Question 1

Advertisement over his head…

Answer 1

He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes, and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him, but every time he looked at me I had to pretend to be looking at the advertisement over his head. When we came into the station he was next to me, and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm, and so I told him I’d have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied.

C2, P23

Question 2

Daisy - beautiful shirts

Answer 2

“They’re such beautiful shirts” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such - such beautiful shirts before”

C5, P59

Question 3

Daisy’s laugh

Answer 3

Daisy watched him and laughed, her sweet, exciting laugh; a tiny gust of powder rose from her bosom into the air

C7, P73

Question 4

Daisy’s voice

Answer 4

“Her voice is full of money” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money - that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it … high in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl …

C7, P75

Question 5

Gatsby’s feelings about Daisy’s house

Answer 5

There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors, and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year’s shining motor cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered

C8, P94

Question 6

Gatsby excited by the fact that previous men have loved Daisy

Answer 6

It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy - it increased her value in his eyes

C8, P94