Great gatsby quotes

First Narration quote

In my younger and more vulnerable years

nick describing gatsby

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.

daisy describing her daughter

Thats the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Gatsby mansion

it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy

Gatsby and the green light

He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way

Tom description

It was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body

Myrtle Wilson impersonating the upper class

Swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.

Valley of ashes description

This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens

Superficial parties

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars

The epigraph

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her room Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted high-bouncing lover, I must have you!" Thomas Parke D'Invilliers

gatsby party excess

these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulp less halves

Gatsby rumours

Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once

Nick as a narrator

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Owl and the books

A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, … staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books.

Gatsby + Oxford and identity

He hurried the phrase "educated at Oxford,"

Meyer Wolfshiem

He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919

Gatsby dedication to daisy

He had waited five years and bought a mansion … so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden

Clock symbol

the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head

gatsby wealth shirts

shirts of linens and thick silk and fine flannel

Gatsby's determination to repeat the past

Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

gatsby misleading identity

Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.

Myrtle death

They saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap

Gatsby seeing Daisy as a possession

It increased her value in his eyes.

michaelis (George Wilson's friend) seeing the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleberg + corruption of morality

the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg which had just emerged pale and enormous from the dissolving night

Nick perception of Tom and Daisy

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy

Gatsby funeral

No one arrived except more police and photographers and newspaper men

Great Gatsby ending

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us…. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.