Gatsby Quotes - Futility within Love Flashcards
1
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[Nick realises why Gatsby holds the parties] “He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he had dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could ‘come over’ some afternoon to a stranger’s garden.”
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Chapter 4, Page 51, top 1/4
2
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[Gatsby] “So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.”
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Chapter 7, Page 93, middle
3
Q
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded him us then, but that’s not matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch our arms farther.. And one fine morning -
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
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Chapter 9, Page 115, end
