Gatsby quotes

Question 1

enchanted objects

Answer 1

‘his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.’

Question 2

Gatsby’s resolves

Answer 2

‘always had some resolves like this or something’

Question 3

romantic Nick

Answer 3

‘for a moment i thought i loved her.’

Question 4

Myrtle’s living room

Answer 4

‘set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it’

Question 5

Gatsby’s parents

Answer 5

‘his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.’

Question 6

Wilson

Answer 6

‘blond, spiritless man, anaemic and faintly handsome.’

Question 7

Can’t repeat the past…

Answer 7

“Why of course you can!”

Question 8

Gatsy’s smile

Answer 8

‘one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance.’

Question 9

Gatsby ‘took’ Daisy

Answer 9

‘took her because he had no real right to touch her hand.’

Question 10

Gatsby God

Answer 10

‘the son of God.’

Question 11

Revaluing possessions

Answer 11

'’I think he revalued everything in his house according to the response it drew from her well-loved eyes.’

Question 12

Mr…

Answer 12

‘Mr Nobody from Nowhere.’

Question 13

Carelessness

Answer 13

'’they smashed up things and creatures then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.’

Question 14

a fool

Answer 14

‘I hope she’ll be a fool, that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’

Question 15

paintless days

Answer 15

‘dimmed a little by many paintless days’

Question 16

Father

Answer 16

‘he must be about his father’s business’

Question 17

men in Valley of Ashes

Answer 17

‘men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.’
‘ash-grey men’

Question 18

end words

Answer 18

‘it eluded us then, but that’s no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.’

Question 19

boats

Answer 19

‘so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaslessly into the past.’

Question 20

Tom’s appearance

Answer 20

‘two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face.’

Question 21

Tom racist

Answer 21

‘dominant race’

Question 22

Gatsby’s guests

Answer 22

‘came and went like moths’

Question 23

Daisy and Jordan

Answer 23

‘like silver idols weighing down their own white dresses’

Question 24

Daisy’s voice

Answer 24

1) ‘her voice is full of money…that was the inexhaustable charm of it.’
2) ‘I think it was her voice that held him most…that voice was a deathless song.’

Question 25

Importance of green light

Answer 25

'the colossal significance of that green light had now vanished forever.'

Question 26

Nick's privilege

Answer 26

'all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'

Question 27

Daisy/ his dreams

Answer 27

Daisy tumbled short of his dreams...because of the colossal vitality of his illusion'

Question 28

consoling...

Answer 28

'in the consoling proximity of millionaires.'

Question 29

Myrtle

Answer 29

'carries her flesh sensuously' | 'immediately perceptable vitality.'

Question 30

East egg

Answer 30

'white palaces of east egg glittered'

Question 31

Gatsby's gift

Answer 31

'extraordinary gift for hope.'

Question 32

Middle East to Nick

Answer 32

'the ragged edge of the universe'

Question 33

Tom and Daisy drifting

Answer 33

'drifted here and there wherever people played polo and were rich together.'

Question 34

Tom drifting

Answer 34

'Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully'

Question 35

Tom and Daisy's garden

Answer 35

'a quarter of a mile long'

Question 36

Jordan and Nick's relationship

Answer 36

'consciously devoid of meaning'

Question 37

Daisy sad

Answer 37

'I'm pretty cynical about everything'

Question 38

Tom sexism

Answer 38

'women run around too much these days to suit me'

Question 39

Dust in Valley of Ashes

Answer 39

'impenetrable cloud'

Question 40

Tom violence

Answer 40

'Tom broke her nose with his open hand'

Question 41

Married

Answer 41

'neither of them can stand the person they're married to.'

Question 42

Businessmen at parties

Answer 42

'aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.'

Question 43

Nick lonely

Answer 43

'I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others.'

Question 44

Gatsby's car

Answer 44

'rich cream colour, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length.'

Question 45

New York

Answer 45

'wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world'

Question 46

Gatsby's business

Answer 46

'rather confidential sort of thing'

Question 47

Wolfsheim

Answer 47

'play with the faith of fifty million people.'

Question 48

Devotion

Answer 48

'five years of unwavering devotion'

Question 49

Recover

Answer 49

'he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself that had gone into loving Daisy'

Question 50

Visions

Answer 50

'wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath'

Question 51

Tom insulting Gatsby

Answer 51

'common swindler'

Question 52

Daisy and the poor

Answer 52

'Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor'

Question 53

High price

Answer 53

'paid a high price for living too long with a single dream'

Question 54

Western v Eastern life

Answer 54

'all westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us suitably unadaptable to eastern life'

Question 55

Oranges

Answer 55

‘5 crates’ ‘pyramid of pulp less halves’

Question 56

Nick race

Answer 56

'three modish negroes'