Great Gatsby: Women being Idealised and Idolised

Question 1

Nick describing Daisy

Answer 1

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. I had to follow the sound of it for a moment, up and down, with my ear alone, before the words came through. A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek

C5, P54

Question 2

Astounding presence

Answer 2

Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real

C5, P59

Question 3

Incomparable milk of wonder

Answer 3

Out of the corner of his eye Gatsby saw that the blocks of the sidewalks really formed a ladder and mounted to a secret place above the trees - he could climb it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the palp of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder.

C6, P71

Question 4

Grail

Answer 4

He [Gatsby] found that he had committed himself to the following of a grail

C8, P95