Quotes Flashcards
(39 cards)
What does Myrtle say when Wilson has locked her in the garage to prevent her from seeing Tom?
‘“Beat me!” he heard her cry. “Throw me down and beat me you dirty little coward!”’
How is Jordan’s attitude to marriage shown?
‘There were several she would have married at the nod of her head.’
What does Jordan say when the phone rings at the dinner table and both Daisy and Tom have left?
‘Tom’s got some woman in New York.’
What does Jordan say in reflection of her relationship with Nick?
‘I don’t give a damn about you now but it was a new experience for me.’
What of Daisy’s actions reflect infidelity in love?
When she receives Gatsby’s letter she’s ready to abandon her wedding to Tom- ‘Tell ‘em Daisy’s change’ her mind.’ However, soon after, ‘She married Tom Buchanan without so much of a shiver.’
What quote at the end of the novel reflects Daisy and Tom to be selfish survivors?
‘They were careless people Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made.’
What does Nick comment in regards to Gatsby’s optimism about life?
‘there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.’
How are Tom and Daisy described in chapter one?
They ‘drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.’
How is Daisy and Tom’s home described in chapter one?
‘a cheerful red-and white Georgian colonial mansion’
How is Tom described in chapter one?
‘He seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing’
What does Daisy wish for girls in the world to Nick in chapter one?
‘“That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”’
How is Myrtle described by Nick in chapter two?
Her face ‘contained no facet or gleam of beauty, but there was an immediate perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.’
In the presence of Tom in chapter two, how does Myrtle dress and act?
She wears ‘an elaborate afternoon dress of cream coloured chiffon’ and ‘The immense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur.’
Why does Myrtle claim she married in chapter two?
‘“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman.’”
How is Gatsby in chapter three separate from the society of his parties?
‘Girls were putting their heads on men’s shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way […] - but no one swooned backward on Gatsby, and no French bob touched Gatsby’s shoulder, and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby’s head for one link.’
How does Nick describe his loneliness in chapter three?
‘At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others.’
How does Nick describe the party guests in chapter four?
‘the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby’s house’
What is Tom’s wedding gift to Daisy in Jordan’s chapter four narrative?
‘A string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.’
How does Nick mockingly sum up Gatsby’s actions in chapter four?
‘He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could ‘come over’ some afternoon to a stranger’s garden.’
How does Daisy respond to Nick telling her not to bring Tom to a meeting with Gatsby in chapter five?
‘“Who is ‘Tom’?” she asked innocently.’
How does Nick feel about Daisy in Gatsby’s eyes in chapter five?
Daisy must have ‘tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion’
How does Nick liken Daisy to a siren in chapter five?
‘that voice was a deathless song’
In the James Gatz narrative of chapter six, how is Gatsby’s urge to be great described?
‘ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain’
‘drums of his destiny’
How is Daisy’s voice referenced in chapter six?
It ‘tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air’
