Semester 2 Yr 11 Literature The Great Gatsby Quotes

Unreliable Narrator - Nick Carraway Drunk

“I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon, so everything that happened has a dim hazy cast over it.” (Chapter 2 page 29)

Unreliable Narrator - NIck Carraway and multiple love interests

“For a moment I thought I loved her… I knew I had to get myself out of that tangle back home. I’d been writing letters once a week and signing them:' ‘Love Nick.’” (Chapter 3 page 56)

Rhetorical device - green light metaphor

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.” (Chapter 9 page 166)

Rhetorical device - metaphor about boats

“So we beat on, boats against the current borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (Chapter 9 page 166)

Lexical choice - Dr T.J Eckleburg

“But his eye’s dimmed a little by many paint-less days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn ground.” (Chapter 2 page 24)

Lexical Choice - Toms societal outlook

“Civilisations going to pieces … I’ve gotten to become a terrible pessimist about things.” (Chapter 1 page 15)

Gatsby finds out Daisy loves Tom

“‘Oh you want too much!’ She cried to Gatsby. ‘I love you now - isn’t that enough? I can’t help whats past.’ He passed a hundred years. ‘You loved me too.’ He repeated. (Chapter 7 page 132)

Gastby phone call

“But it was all going to be any minute now. Back in the house the phone rang … but the connection wasn’t made … I have an idea the Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared.” (Chapter 8 page 161)

Daisy’s alluding voice

“It was the 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 … there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget” (Chapter 1 page 14)

Daisy causing wreckage

“They were carless 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. (Chapter 9 page 164-165)

Toms ruling appearance

“Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always aggressively leaning forwards. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body.” (Chapter 1 page 7)

Toms paternal touch

“There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked - and there were men at new haven who hated his guts.” (Chapter 1 page 7)