THE GREAT GATSBY - Quotes
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Daisy - “king’s daughter”
"The king’s daughter, the golden girl"
Daisy & Tom - “careless people”
“Tom and Daisy were careless people, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money”
Daisy & Jordan - “ballooned”
“The two young women ballooned slowly to the floor”
Daisy & Jordan - “both in white”
“They were both in white, their dresses fluttering and rippling”
Daisy & Gatsby - “Your wife”
“Your wife doesnt love you… shes never loved you… she loves me”
Gatsby - “what foul dust”
“What foul dust floated in the wake of his dream”
Gatsby - “alone”
“Standing alone on the marble steps”
Gatsby - “green light”
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us”
Gatsby - “grand vision”
“He had a grand vision of himself that never wavered”
Gatsby - “the past”
“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can”
Gatsby - “enchanted objects”
“His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one”
Gatsby - “colossal significance”
“The colossal significance of the light had now vanished forever”
Gatsby - “unfamiliar sky”
“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky”
Gatsby - “new world”
“A new world, material without being real”
Tom - “dust”
“He threw dust into your eyes just like he did Daisy’s”
Gatsby’s house
“blazing with light… lit from tower to cellar”
Jordan - “accident”
“It takes two to make an accident. I dont like careless people”
Jordan - “evening dress”
“She wore her evening dress, like all dresses, like sports clothes”
Jordan - “dishonest”
“She was incurably dishonest”
Jordan & Daisy - “silver idols”
“They were sat on the couch like silver idols weighing down their dresses”
Dust - “Valley of Ashes”
“This is the Valley of Ashes, a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and great grotesque gardens”
Dust - “inexplicable amount of dust”
“There was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere”
Nick - “honest people”
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known”
Thomas Parke D’Invilliers Epigraph
“Then wear the gold hat… I must have you!”
Tom Buchanan - “cruel”
“A cruel body”
The Valley of Ashes - “grey”
“Ash-grey men” - “the grey land”
Myrtle - “ghost”
“Walking through her husband as if he were a ghost”
Tom - ‘Mr Nobody’
‘Mr Nobody from Nowhere’
Myrtle - ‘her life violently’
‘her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust’
Nick - ‘I was within and without’
‘I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life’
Daisy - ‘I hope she’ll be’
‘I hope she’ll be a fool… a beautiful little fool’
Carraway - ‘I began to have a feeling’
‘I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all’