The Great gatsby Quotes

“Possibly it had occured to him that the colossaln significance of that light had now vanished forever”

• Chapter 5

• after daisy crying over Gatsby’s shirts

“can’t repeat the past ? Why of course you can !”

• illusion vs reality

“he streched out his arms toward the dark water… a single green light, minute and far away”

• illusion vs reality

“I was within and without, simulanteously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life”

• illusion vs reality

“ I wanted the world to be inn uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever

• reality vs. dreams

“they were careless ppl, Tom and Daisy”

• disilllution view of reality

• social hierarchy

• american dream

“he wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say :”I never loved you””

“I never loved him”

“ I did loved him once — but i loved you too” Daisy

blindness twrds the truth

“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”

• gender expectations

“she only married you because I was poor”

• social classes

“they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money”

• social classes

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

• brutal masculinity

“ I’m encline to reserve all judgments”

• narrator”

“I have been drunk only twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon”

• narrator

  • reliability

“ I thought he knew something abt breeding but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe”

• social classes

  • valley of ashes

“so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”

• makes gatsby’s story universal - w/o any hope we can’t live

• there is a little bit og Gatsby in everybody but G went too far

“Jay Gatsby.” had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice, and the long secret extravanganza was played out”

“so we drovge on towards death through the cooling twilight”

• foreshadowing