TGG quotes

Daisy baby's a girl

"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." - Chapter 1

Gatsby's guests

"Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all" - Chapter 3

abt the library foreshadowing

"He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse" - Chapter 3

West Egg/ East Egg

"Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the said nobility of the country side - East Egg condescending to West Egg" - Chapter 3

Daisy marries Tom despite love for Gatsby

"Next day at five o'clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver" - Chapter 4

Daisy blasé

""What we'll do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?"" - Chapter 7

Gatsby's smile

"he smiled understandingly - much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four of five times in life.[..] It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. - Chapter 3

Gatsby invented himself

"The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island sprang from his Platonic conception of himself." - Chapter 6

abt repeating the past

"Can't repeat the past ?" He cried incredulously. "Why of course you can !"" - G, Chapter 6

Gatsby wants Daisy's validation

"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." - Chapter 4

Nick as a narrator

"Im inclined to reserve all judgements" - Chapter 1

American dream

"Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bride", I thought, "Anything at all..."" - Chapter 4

Tom being oppressive

"His presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness - Chapter 6

Tom wanting to figure out things abt Gatsby

"I'd like to know who he is and what he does. And I think I'll make a point of figuring it out." - Tom, Chapter 6

Gatsby isn't anyone : he isn't real old money

"I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife." - Tom, Chapter 7

Gatsby and green light

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no mater - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - Chapter 9

G explaining himself to Nick

"I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody. You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me." CHapter 4

Gatsby not same social class as Daisy

"he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself - that he was fully able to take care of her. As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities - he had no comfortable family standing behind him, and he was liable at the whim of an impersonal government to be blown anywhere around the world." Chapter 8

Daisy's voice

her low thrilling voice. It was a kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

about Gatsby

the man who gives his name to this book... who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn [...] there was something gorgeous about it"

nicks opinion on Gatsby

"Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn

description the Valley of Ashes

"fantastic farm where ashes grew like wheat" chapter 2

descrpition of East Egg

"the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water" Chapter 1