minor characters quotations

Question 1

jordan baker

Answer 1

“I enjoyed looking at her. She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.”

Question 2

george wilson

Answer 2

“He was a blonde, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome. When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes.”

Question 3

catherine

Answer 3

“slender, worldly girl of about thirty,”

Question 4

mr mckee

Answer 4

“pale feminine man from the flat below”

Question 5

mrs mckee

Answer 5

“shrill, languid, handsome, and horrible”

Question 6

klipspringer

Answer 6

“What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there. I wonder if it’d be too much trouble to have the butler send them on.”

Question 7

owl eyes

Answer 7

“Go on!” He started. “Why, my God! They used to go there by the hundreds.” He took off his glasses and wiped them again, outside and in.

“The poor son-of-a-bitch,” he said.”

Question 8

michaelis

Answer 8

“Have you got a church you go to sometimes, George? Maybe even if you haven’t been there for a long time? Maybe I could call up the church and get a priest to come over and he could talk to you, see?”

Question 9

dan cody

Answer 9

“physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money”

Question 10

henry gatz

Answer 10

“It was Gatsby’s father, a solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day”

Question 11

pammy buchanan

Answer 11

“All right…I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”