The Great Gatsby Quotes

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Chapter 1 - How does Nick say he felt when he came back from war?
'I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever' - Lost Generation, shows the shock and horror of WW1
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What does Gatsby represent to Nick?
'everything for which I have an unaffected scorn'
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What was different about Gatsby according to Nick?
'there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life'
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What is his 'gift'?
'an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again'.
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What temporarily 'closed out [Nick's] interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men'?
'Gatsby turned out all right in the end - it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams'
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How is West Egg described?
'the less fashionable of the two [eggs]'
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What is significant about Gatsby's house?
'it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy' - parallel to himself - desperate to be old and eestablished but remains part of new money
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How is Tom described?
'two shining arrogant eyes' 'a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body'
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What is the first thing Daisy says?
'I'm p-paralysed with happiness'
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How does Nick describe Daisy's voice?
'the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again'
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What does Nick describe Jordan's face as?
'wan, charming, discontented'
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How does Fitzgerald show that Tom is racist?
'have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by this man Goddard?' 'if we don't look out the white race will be utterly submerged'
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What does Daisy compare Nick to?
'a rose, an absolute rose'
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How does Fitzgerald show that Jordan is flawed?
'Miss Baker leaned forward unashamed, trying to hear'
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What does she reveal?
'Tom's got some woman in New York'
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