Gatsby Quotes Flashcards
(26 cards)
Description gatsby
“ something gorgeous about him some heightened sensitivity “
Old vs new
West egg, Less fashionable side
White palaces of fashionable east egg glittered along the water
Tom
Supercilious manner
body capable of enormous leverage”
Daisy
Dresses rippling and fluttering
ballooned down
I’m paralysed with happiness
I hope she’ll be a fool that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world a beautiful little fool
Jordan
Like a young cadet
They ought to let her run around the country this way
Green light
Stretched out his arms towards the dark water
A single green light
Wilson
Blond spiritless man, anemic
Valley of ashes
Ash grey men swarm
Myrtle
Walking through her husband as if she were a ghost
Stretched tight over her wide hips
Changer her costume
Wasn’t fit to lick my shoe
Rumours gatsby
They say he’s third cousin to the kaiser
I heard he killed a guy once
Tom - “ bootlegger
Parties
Men and girls came and went like moths
Every Friday five crates of oranges
Library
What thoroughness what realism
Gatsby meeting
Old sport
Sort of eternal reassurance
No French bob touched gatsbys shoulder
Car
Swollen in its monstrous length
Wolfshiem
Small flat nosed jew
Finest specimen of human molar
Flashback
In a way every young girl wants to be looked at
String of pearls valued at 350 thousand
Gatsbys house
Ur place looks like the worlds fair
Meeting gatsbys
“ silver shirt and gold coloured tie “
“Pale as death, standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes “
“ defunct mantelpiece clock “
“ he literally glowed”
“ that huge place there I love it “
“ never seen such beautiful shirts before “
“ daisy tumbled short of his dreams… the colossal vitality of his illusion”
“ the Finn “
Backstory
Yacht represented all the beauty and glamour In the world
James hats of North Dakota
Past
Can’t repeat the past why of course u can
“ has” Daisy
His career as trimalchio was over
Dismissed every servant
Daisy as status
Her voice is full of money
Tom opinion on gatsby
An Oxford man like hell he is he wears a pink suit
Let me nobody from now where make love to your wife
Myrtle death
Left breast swinging loose like a flap
Violently extinguished
