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Willa Cather My Antonia And Scott F Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Quotes

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Quotes for My Antonia and The Great Gatsby for English Literature A level. Themes for Greed, Identity, and Women

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‘I married him because I thought he was a gentleman’
‘With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change’
‘She was incurably dishonest. She wasn’t able to endure being at a disadvantage’
‘I’ve seen a good deal of married life, and I don’t care for it’
‘assured me that Lena will never be either shabby or rich’
‘American big country; much money’
‘Who had quietly gone West to try her fortune the year before’
‘Cutter was tormented by the fear that Mrs. Cutter would live longer than he' // ‘he had shot
his wife’

‘Her voice is full of money’
‘Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!’
‘I gathered that he wanted to recover something’
‘I’d got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care’
‘Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past’
‘I knew that it was homesickness that had killed Mr. Shimerda’. ‘He not look good’

‘Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us’
‘"They're a rotten crowd’ // ‘I am one of the few honest people that I have ever met’
‘Presumptuous little flirtation’
‘They were careless people, Tom and Daisy---they smashed up things and creatures and
then retreated back into their money’
‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had’
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‘With the influence of the dress her personality had also undergone a change’
‘People were not invited – they went there’
‘one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one’
‘‘’They’re such beautiful shirts’, she sobbed’ (finds identity in people who fit her class)
‘Out there I felt at home again’ // ‘You really are a part of me’
‘Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once’
‘There was something gorgeous about him’
‘He invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to
invent.’
‘I’d got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care’
‘She was quick to anger, quick to laughter’ // ‘Mrs Harling…brought him guns and tools and
electric batteries, and never asked what he did with them’
‘I’d thought I’d had you as a sweetheart’ // ‘I used to wish I could have this flattering dream
about Antonia’
‘that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
‘Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply’
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‘Fashionable East Egg glittered across the water’
‘The least fashionable of the two’
‘Who is this Gatsby anyhow?’ demanded Tom suddenly. ‘Some big bootlegger?’
‘ash-grey men who move dimly’
‘Ignorant people who couldn’t speak English’
‘Considered a menace to the social order.’

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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Publisher: Unknown ISBN: 9780140620184 Edition: Unknown

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