Great Gatsby Character Quotes

Question 1

Jay Gatsby

Question 2

Can’t repeat the past?

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Why, of course you can!

Question 3

He had one of those rare smiles

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with a quality of eternal reassurance in it.

Question 4

He was a son

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of God.

Question 5

Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island

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sprang up from his platonic conception of himself.

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To this conception, he was

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faithful until the end.

Question 7

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes

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and felt it in others.

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I usually find myself among strangers

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because I drift here and there.

Question 9

Nick Carraway

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I was privy to the secret griefs

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of wild, unknown men.

Question 11

I bought a dozen volumes

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of banking and credit and investment securities.

Question 12

Promising to unfold the shiny secrets that only

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Midas and Morgan and Maecenas knew.

Question 13

Our line of yellow windows must have contributed

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their share of human secrecy to the causal watcher.

Question 14

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted

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and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

Question 15

I am one of the few honest people

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I have ever known.

Question 16

Unlike Gatsby and Tom, I had no girl whose

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disembodied face floated.

Question 17

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs,

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have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

Question 18

They’re a rotten crowd -

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You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

Question 19

Daisy Buchanan

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I’m p-paralyzed

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with happiness.

Question 21

There was an excitement in her voice…

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a singing compulsion… a promise…

Question 22

That there were gay, exciting things

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hovering in the next hour.

Question 23

They moved with the fast crowd, all of them young and rich

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but Daisy came out with an absolutely perfect reputation.

Question 24

She’s got an indiscreet voice.

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It’s full of money.

Question 25

Daisy was young and her artifical world was redolent of

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cheerful snobbery and orchestras -

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- which set up the year,

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summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes.

Question 27

Tom Buchanan

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I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully,

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for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.

Question 29

It was a body capable of

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enormous leverage.

Question 30

It's a fine book... if we don't look out

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the white race will be - will be utterly submerged.

Question 31

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas

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as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

Question 32

Jordan Baker

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She held my hand impersonally,

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as a promise that she'd take care of me in a minute.

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Jordan Baker instinctively avoided

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clever, shrewd men.

Question 35

She was

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incurably honest.

Question 36

I suppose she begun dealing in subterfuges

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to satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body.

Question 37

I thought you were rather an honest,

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straight forward person.

Question 38

I thought it was your

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secret pride.

Question 39

Myrtle Wilson

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She carried her surplus flesh sensuously

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as some women can.

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There was an immediately perceptible vitality about her,

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as if the nerves of her body were continually smoldering.

Question 42

Mrs Wilson had changed her costume and was now attired

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in an elaborate dress of cream-coloured chiffon.

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Her personality had also

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undergone a change.

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converted into

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impressive hauteur.

Question 45

Myrtle raised her eyebrows in despair

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at the shiftlessness of the lower orders.

Question 46

I married George because I thought he was a gentleman,

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but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe.