THE GREAT GATSBY - QUOTES
CHAPTER ONE:
Nick Carraway
• Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an una ected scorn.
• Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust oated in the
wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and
shortwinded elations of men.
• I was a guide, a path nder, an original settler.
• I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two.
• It was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy.
• A cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion.
• She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage.
• My own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police.
• He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way […] single green light.
Daisy Buchanan
• ‘Gatsby?’ demanded Daisy. ‘What Gatsby?’
• ‘I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’
Tom Buchanan
• Arrogant eyes […] leaning aggressively […] enormous power of that body.
• ‘The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be - will be utterly submerged.’
CHAPTER TWO:
Nick Carraway
• The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic.
• I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of
life.
• [Myrtle had] perceptible vitality about her.
• [Mr McKee was a] pale, feminine man from the at below.
CHAPTER THREE:
Nick Carraway
• People were not invited - they went there […] They conducted themselves according to the rules
of behaviour associated with an amusement park.
• East Egg condescending to West Egg and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gaiety.
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CHAPTER ONE:
Nick Carraway
• Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an una ected scorn.
• Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust oated in the
wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and
shortwinded elations of men.
• I was a guide, a path nder, an original settler.
• I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two.
• It was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy.
• A cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion.
• She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage.
• My own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police.
• He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way […] single green light.
Daisy Buchanan
• ‘Gatsby?’ demanded Daisy. ‘What Gatsby?’
• ‘I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’
Tom Buchanan
• Arrogant eyes […] leaning aggressively […] enormous power of that body.
• ‘The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be - will be utterly submerged.’
CHAPTER TWO:
Nick Carraway
• The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic.
• I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of
life.
• [Myrtle had] perceptible vitality about her.
• [Mr McKee was a] pale, feminine man from the at below.
CHAPTER THREE:
Nick Carraway
• People were not invited - they went there […] They conducted themselves according to the rules
of behaviour associated with an amusement park.
• East Egg condescending to West Egg and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gaiety.
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