Paper 2 - The Great Gatsby Quotes

“In my younger and

more vulnerable years.” (Nick - Chapter 1)

“Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or wet marshes,

but after a certain point, I don’t care what it’s founded on.” (Nick - Chapter 1)

“I wanted no more riotuous excursions with

privileged glimpses into the human heart.” (Nick - Chapter 1)

“Gatsby turned out all right in the end. It is what preyed on Gatsby,

what fould dust floated in the wake of his dreams” (Nick - Chapter 1)

“I hope she’ll be a fool,

that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” (Daisy - Chapter 1)

“Americans, while willing, even eager, to be serfs,

have always been obstinate about being peasantry.” (

“I was within and without

, simoultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life”.

There must have been moments that afternoon where

even Daisy fell short of his dreams, not by any cause of her own but because of the collosall vitality of his illusions.”

This is a valley of ashes,

a fantastic farm in which ashes grow like wheat.”

He revalued everything according to

the response it drew from her well loving eyes.

Americans while eager

to be serfs have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

Next day at

five o’clock she married Tom Buchanan wihtout so much as a quiver.

I love you now,

isn’t that enough? I can’t help what has passed.

He let her believe

he was a person from much the same stratum as herself.

So we beat on,

boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly against the past.

Let us learn

to show our friendship for a man when he is alive, not when he is dead.

Can’t repeat the past?

Why of course you can!