KEY QUOTES
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- KEY QUOTES
- 'my father snobbishly suggested and i snobbishly repeat...' pg 7
- 'factual immitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normany...spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy' pg 11
- ' and then drifted here' repetition of drifted pg 11
- 'anchored ballons' 'shut the rear windows' pg 13
- 'she snapped them out with her fingers' pg 17
- 'the fifth guest's shrill metallic urgency' pg 21
- 'almost at the moment when mr gatsby identified himself ...calling him on the aire' pg49
- 'the phone rang...' pg 90
- 'Just beforenoon the phone worke me' pg147
- 'reached his arms toward the dark water...a single green light' pg 25
- eyes of dr eckleburg 'brood on over the solemn dumpling ground' pg 26
- 'thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light' pg 28
- with the influence of the dress her personality has also undergone a change pg 33
- 'neither of them can stand the person their married to' pg 35
- 'i wanted to get out...but each time i tried to go i became entangled in some ...argument' pg 37
- 'our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher' pg 37
- 'i was within and without'
- 'enough coloured lights to make a Christmas tree of G house' pg 41
- 'the earth lurches away from the sun' pg42
- 'i'll bet he killed a man' pg 45
- 'this fella's a regular Belasco.it's a triumph...knewhen to stop though - didn't cut the pages' pg 47
- 'it was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it' pg49
- 'i got a strong impression he was picking his words with care' pg 49
- 'old sport'
- 'it was a rich cream colour, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length' pg 63
- 'my own taxi groaned' pg 79
- 'i'll tell you God's truth' pg 63
- 'a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes' pg 67
- 'Wolfsheim's nose flashed at me indignantly' pg 69
- ' she cried...we locked the door and got her into a cold bath' pg 74
- 'its a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people' pg 75
- colour imagery
- 'lilac trees' 'lavender hat' pg 82
- 'its an old clock...it had smashed in pieces on the floor' pg 84
- "like Kant at his church steeple" pg 85
- 'it 's stopped raining' pg 86
- 'i think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes' pg88
- 'the colossal vitality of his illusion' pg 92
- 'the colossal significance of the light had now vanished forever' pg 90
- 'the truth is that Jay Gatsby...sprang from his Platonic conception of himself" pg 96
- 'he invented just the sort of Jay Gaysby that a seventeen-yeaer-old boy would...sprang from a platonic version of himself' pg 95
- 'women run around too much these days to suit me' pg 100
- ''she was appalled by West Egg' pg 103
- 'cant repeat the past?'...'why of course you can' pg 106
- 'then he kissed her...the incarnation was complete' pg 107
- 'what i and almost remembered was uncommunicable forever' pg 107
- 'through the hall of the buchanans house blew a faint wind' pg 110
- 'drank down nervous gaiety with the cold ale' pg113
- 'her voice is full of money' pg 115
- 'it occurred to me that there was no profound difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well' pg118
- 'only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away' pg128
- structure of M's death - explained before he knows = dramatic irony pg 130
- 'there was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy' pg 138
- 'always with indiscernible barbed wire between' pg 141
- 'god sees everything...thats an advisterment' pg 152
- 'schedule pg 164
- 'we were all westerners...subtly unadaptable to eastern life' ph 167
- 'gatsbybelieved in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year receeds us' pg 171
- 'so we beat on.... pg 173
- driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl pg 67
- jimmy was bound to get ahead pg 164
- gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor pg 142
- while the church bells...the world and its mistress returned to gatbsys pg 60
- 'ash grey men' pg 26
- broke her nose with his open hand' pg 39
- sell me that car pg 28
- you can never repeat the past
- Only the dead dream fought on as the afternon slipped away.
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