The Great Gatsby quotation table (theme and chapter)
Wealth American Romantic Platonic Familial Unreliabl Dreams, Destuc Time Femininit Isolation
dream, love, love love e Illusion/idy tion y, beauty
1920s, infidelity narrator/ llic vs
materialis Nick, Reality,
m morality hope
Chapter 1
Nick foreshadows later events in the story
Differences in setting between East and West Egg
We meet Tom, Daisy and Jordan
‘identical in ‘Hotel De ‘Tom’s got ‘I suppose Looking/ ‘looking up ‘that’s the
contour and Ville in some she talks, observing into my best thing
separated Normandy’ woman in and – motif face, a girl can
only by a ‘spanking New York’ eats, and promising be in this
courtesy bay’ new’ 11 20 everythin ‘consoling that there world, a
g’ proximity was no one beautiful
‘dissimilarity ‘I had heard ‘nibble at ‘looks at of in the world little fool’
in every some story the edge me millionaire she so much 22
particular of her too, a of stale absently’ s’ 11 wished to
except size critical, ideas as if 21 see’ 14 ‘they
and shape’ 10 unpleasant his sturdy ‘my own oughtn't
story’ 23 physical instinct ‘her voice let her run
‘fashionable egotism was to compelled around the
East egg’ no longer telephone me forward country
nourished immediat breathlessly this way’
‘his family his ely for the as I listened’ 23
were peremptor police’ 21 19
enormously y heart’ 25
wealthy’ ‘I was ‘stretched
confused out his arms
‘drifted here and a toward the
and there little dark water’
unrestfully disgusted’ ‘he was
wherever 24 trembling’
people played ‘a single
polo and were green light’
,rich together’ 25
11
‘Georgian
Colonial
Mansion’
12
‘sunken
Italian
garden’ 13
‘you live in
West egg, she
remarked
contemptuou
sly’ 16
‘distinguished
secret society
in which her
and Tom
belonged’ 22
‘we heard you
were engaged
to a girl out
West’ 24
Chapter 2
Tom takes Nick to met Myrtle
The Valley of Ashes introduction- destroyed, desolate- T.S Elliot and The Wasteland
Party at Tom and Myrtle’s flat
‘Mrs Wilson ‘an oculist ‘walking ‘I have ‘desolat ‘carried
had changed set them through been e area’ her surplus
her costume’ there to her drunk just flesh
fatten his husband twice in Lexical sensuously
,‘With the practice in as if he my life, field of like some
influence of the borough were a and the grey women
the dress her of Queens, ghost’ 28 second 26 can’ 28
personality and then time was
has also sank down ‘neither of that ‘the
undergone a himself into them can afternoon’ waste
change’ 33 eternal stand the 32 land’ 27
blindness’ person
‘shiftlessness 26 tey’re ‘Tom
of the lower married Buchan
orders’ 34 ‘A cousin of to’ 35 an
Kaiser broke
‘He wasn’t fit Wilhelm’ 35 ‘she’s a her
to lick my catholic, nose
shoe’ ‘I couldn’t and they with his
keep my don’t open
‘He borrowed eyes off believe in hand’
somebody’s him, but divorce. 39
best suit to every time Daisy was
get married he looked at not a
in’ me I had to Catholic’
pretend to 36
be looking
at the
advertiseme
nt above his
head’ 38
‘I’m going
to make a
list of all the
things I’ve
got to get’
38
Chapter 3
Gatsby’s party- Nick is invited
We meet Gatsby properly for the first time
Wealth American Romantic Platonic Familial Unreliabl Dreams, Destuc Time Femininit Isolation
dream, love, love love e Illusion/idy tion y, beauty
1920s, infidelity narrator/ llic vs
materialis Nick, Reality,
m morality hope
Chapter 1
Nick foreshadows later events in the story
Differences in setting between East and West Egg
We meet Tom, Daisy and Jordan
‘identical in ‘Hotel De ‘Tom’s got ‘I suppose Looking/ ‘looking up ‘that’s the
contour and Ville in some she talks, observing into my best thing
separated Normandy’ woman in and – motif face, a girl can
only by a ‘spanking New York’ eats, and promising be in this
courtesy bay’ new’ 11 20 everythin ‘consoling that there world, a
g’ proximity was no one beautiful
‘dissimilarity ‘I had heard ‘nibble at ‘looks at of in the world little fool’
in every some story the edge me millionaire she so much 22
particular of her too, a of stale absently’ s’ 11 wished to
except size critical, ideas as if 21 see’ 14 ‘they
and shape’ 10 unpleasant his sturdy ‘my own oughtn't
story’ 23 physical instinct ‘her voice let her run
‘fashionable egotism was to compelled around the
East egg’ no longer telephone me forward country
nourished immediat breathlessly this way’
‘his family his ely for the as I listened’ 23
were peremptor police’ 21 19
enormously y heart’ 25
wealthy’ ‘I was ‘stretched
confused out his arms
‘drifted here and a toward the
and there little dark water’
unrestfully disgusted’ ‘he was
wherever 24 trembling’
people played ‘a single
polo and were green light’
,rich together’ 25
11
‘Georgian
Colonial
Mansion’
12
‘sunken
Italian
garden’ 13
‘you live in
West egg, she
remarked
contemptuou
sly’ 16
‘distinguished
secret society
in which her
and Tom
belonged’ 22
‘we heard you
were engaged
to a girl out
West’ 24
Chapter 2
Tom takes Nick to met Myrtle
The Valley of Ashes introduction- destroyed, desolate- T.S Elliot and The Wasteland
Party at Tom and Myrtle’s flat
‘Mrs Wilson ‘an oculist ‘walking ‘I have ‘desolat ‘carried
had changed set them through been e area’ her surplus
her costume’ there to her drunk just flesh
fatten his husband twice in Lexical sensuously
,‘With the practice in as if he my life, field of like some
influence of the borough were a and the grey women
the dress her of Queens, ghost’ 28 second 26 can’ 28
personality and then time was
has also sank down ‘neither of that ‘the
undergone a himself into them can afternoon’ waste
change’ 33 eternal stand the 32 land’ 27
blindness’ person
‘shiftlessness 26 tey’re ‘Tom
of the lower married Buchan
orders’ 34 ‘A cousin of to’ 35 an
Kaiser broke
‘He wasn’t fit Wilhelm’ 35 ‘she’s a her
to lick my catholic, nose
shoe’ ‘I couldn’t and they with his
keep my don’t open
‘He borrowed eyes off believe in hand’
somebody’s him, but divorce. 39
best suit to every time Daisy was
get married he looked at not a
in’ me I had to Catholic’
pretend to 36
be looking
at the
advertiseme
nt above his
head’ 38
‘I’m going
to make a
list of all the
things I’ve
got to get’
38
Chapter 3
Gatsby’s party- Nick is invited
We meet Gatsby properly for the first time
