"The Great Gatsby" - Textual Quotes

Question 1

Spare Quotes -

Answer 1

• “I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone”
• “This is a Valley of Ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat”
• “one time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil”
• “he’s a bootlegger” said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers”

Question 2

Love and Marriage

Answer 2

• “He hadn’t once ceased looking at daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes”
• “There must have been times that afternoon when daisy tumbled short of his dreams, not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion”
• She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me”

Question 3

Gender

Answer 3

• “I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”
• “dishonesty in a women is a thing you never blame deeply”
• “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”
  “She was a slender, small-breaded girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by showing her body backwards […] like a young cadet”

Question 4

Class

Answer 4

• “He was a sone of God - and he must be about his Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty”
• “certainly not leaving me […] for a common swindler who would have to steal the ring he put on her finger”
• “where men move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air”
• “so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”

Question 5

Hypocrisy

Answer 5

• “they’re a rotten crowd.. you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”
• ” By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me.”
  -“she’s a catholic, and they don’t believe in divorce”

Question 6

Materialism

Answer 6

• “Her voice is full of money”
• “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up thing and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness”
• “Daisy bent her head into the shirts ad began to cry stormily”
• “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water… and distinguished nothing except a single green light”

Question 7

Identity and Self-hood

Answer 7

• “He invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end”
• “Can’t repeat the past?… Why of course you can!”
• “The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself”
• “Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life”