Great Gatsby: Suffering and Entrapment

Question 1

Dark water

Answer 1

He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, as far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness

C1, P16

Question 2

Perishable breath

Answer 2

He [Gatsby] knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God

C6, P71

Question 3

Gatsby’s reaction to Tom and Daisy’s love

Answer 3

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby

C7, P85

Question 4

Paid a high price

Answer 4

He [Gatsby] had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass

C8, P103