Great Gatsby quotes Flashcards
(48 cards)
“I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”
pg.13
Daisy wishes her to be ignorant to life’s struggles
“she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where”
pg.13
Tom infidelity
“except a sing green light, minute and far away, that might have been at the end of the dock”
pg. 16
symbol of the green light
“faintly stout, but carried her flesh sensuously”
pg.18
lust and sensuality
“walking through her husband as if he were a ghost”
pg.18
love as suffering
“I want to see you,’ said Tome intently. ‘Get on the next train’”
pg.18
power dynamics
“Mrs Wilson had changed her costume sometime before and was now attired in an elaborate afternoon dress”
pg.21
materialist love and transactional relationships
“I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe”
pg. 23
transactional relationships- Wilson can’t provide for her
“Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.”
pg. 25 abusive relationships
“They were so engrossed in each other that she didn’t see me until I was five feet away”
pg.48 idealised love
“The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time”
pg. 48
idealised love
“the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over”
pg. 49
ownership and power dynamics
“Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay”
pg.51
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired”
pg. 51
unattainable love
“rested against the face of a defunct mantlepiece clock”
pg.55
Gatsby trying to cheat time
“he turned and caught it with trembling fingers”
pg. 55
Gatsby trying to control time and retrieve the past
“he hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy”
pg.59
“the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever”
pg.60
idealised love v reality
“there must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams”
pg.61
“It had gone beyond her, beyond everything”
pg.61-62
Not in love with Daisy but what she represents
“But the rest offended her”
“she was appalled by West Egg”
pg. 69
Doesn’t believe in social mobility and new money
“I feel far away from her,’ he said. ‘It’s hard to make her understand.’
pg.70
separation and barriers to love
“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you’. After she had obliterated 4 years with that sentence”
pg.70
Gatsby trying to return to the past without acknowledging the changes that have taken place
“‘Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’
pg.70
Gatsby has dedicated his entire life to recapturing a golden,
perfect past with Daisy. Gatsby believes that money can
recreate the past.
