Gatsby Quotes - Relationships Representing American History

Question 1

[Gatsby’s connection to the early pioneers] “And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailor’s eyes - a fresh, green breast of the new world.”

Answer 1

Chapter 9, Page 115, 1/4 down

Question 2

“A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about… like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.”

Answer 2

Chapter 8, Page 103, 1/3rd/middleish

Question 3

[Wilson] “Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at they eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night.
‘God sees everything’, repeated Wilson.”

Answer 3

Chapter 8, Page 102, top