CHAPTER 9 Flashcards
“I thought his would be Daisy at last”
Nick has personified Gatsby, turning into him
“But she and Tom had gone away”
retreated into money and security
“It was Gatsby’s father, a solemn old man”
authentic father, G excluded his family, inevitable corruption
“I mentioned Gatsby”, “Oh-h”
Gatsby is the victim of “foul dust”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead”
A message for Nick, who was an observer of corruption
“Well i met another bad driver, didn’t I? … I thought you were rather an honest man”
Nick perceived as unreliable
“He threw dust in your eyes just like he did with Daisy”
Fitzgerald showing how he was blind to the reality around him, stuck in a façade of the middle class
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”
Fitzgerald compares our struggle to reach the American Dream and create our future that matches our vision of the future to a boat moving against the current
