Quotes

Question 1

“They’re a rotten crowd…you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”

Answer 1

Class: nick is saying to gatsby that Tom and daisy the elites are inherently bad people, gatsby shouldn’t concern himself with trying to be like them they’re undesirable and evil

Question 2

That huge incoherent failure of a house

Answer 2

American dream gatsbys dreams and hard work were all for nothing, his house was meaningless to him because at the end of it he still fell short of his dream. Therefore the house is simply a symbol of his shortcomings.

Question 3

Gatsby believed in the green light in the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us

Answer 3

American dream

Question 4

An elegant young roughneck A year or two over 30, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd.

Answer 4

Class/American dream

Question 5

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people

Answer 5

American dream / class

Question 6

There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness

Answer 6

Gatsby / American dream

Question 7

“Meyer wolfsheim? No, he’s a gambler” Gatsby hesitated then, added cooly: “he’s the man that takes the World Series back in 1919”

Answer 7

Immorality and American dream

Question 8

There is such beautiful shirts. She sobbed her voice muffled in the thick folds. It makes me sad, because I’ve never seen such beautiful shirts before.

Answer 8

Love/class

Question 9

Making A short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand

Answer 9

Immorality

Question 10

Anything can happen now we’ve slide over this bridge, I thought anything at all… Even Gatsby could happen, without any particular wonder.

Answer 10

American dream

Question 11

God Sees everything repeated Wilson

Answer 11

Immorality

Question 12

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy smashed up things and creatures and then retreated into their money or their vast carelessness

Answer 12

Immorality and class

Question 13

Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay

Answer 13

Love

Question 14

Your Voice is full of money, he said suddenly

Answer 14

Love and class

Question 15

An Oxford man. he was incredulous. Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit

Answer 15

Class

Question 16

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life

Answer 16

Immorality

Question 17

Nobody came

Answer 17

Class

Question 18

Oh you want too much! She cried to Gatsby. I love you now, isn’t that enough? I can’t help whats passed.

Answer 18

Love

Question 19

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr nobody from nowhere make love to your wife.

Answer 19

Immorality

Question 20

I hope she’ll be a fool that’s the best thing, a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Answer 20

American dream

Question 21

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled.

Answer 21

Nick is both the participant and observer his ambivalence mirrors the readers view of the 1920s glamorous yet morally bankrupt

Question 22

“The death car… didn’t stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment, and then disappeared around the next bend.” (Chapter 7)

Answer 22

The hit-and-run symbolizes the carelessness of the rich (Daisy, who drives) and the expendability of the poor (Myrtle)

Question 23

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (Chapter 9)

Answer 23

The closing metaphor suggests the Dream is a cyclical struggle against immutable social barriers.