CHAPTER 8 Flashcards
1
Q
“I couldn’t sleep.. i tossed half-sick between grotesque reality and savage, frightening dreams”
A
fantasy and reality opposed
2
Q
“his house… ghostly piano… dust everywhere”
A
unfulfilled purpose, lacks vitality
3
Q
“he was clutching at some last hope and I couldn’t bear to shake him free”
A
the hope that then kills him
4
Q
“It excited him… that many men had already loved Diasy- it increased her value in his eyes”
A
atypical love
5
Q
“he let her believe that he was a person from much the same strata as herself”
A
beginning of love was a lie, inevitable doom
6
Q
“because i disapproved of him from beginning to end”
A
contrast, novel of guilt or shame, how Fitzgerald viewed himself
7
Q
“and the holocaust was complete”
A
who did it harm the most
