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1st Daisy
“Daisy leaned forward again, her voice glowing and singing.”-Nick
“ And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”-Daisy
“I wish I had done everything on earth with you” -Daisy
“Gatsby looked at Daisy in a way that every young girl wanted to be looked at.”-Jordan
"Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once – but I loved you too."-Daisy
“I tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment, but he was already too far away, and I could only remember, without resentment, that Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower.” -Nick
“You’re just embarrassed, that’s all,” and luckily I added : “Daisy’s embarrassed too”.
“You’re acting like a little boy,” I broke out impatiently. “Not only that ,but you’re being rude. Daisy’s sitting in there all alone.”
"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the think folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before." (5.118-119)
"Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once – but I loved you too." (7.261)
"You did it, Tom," she said accusingly. "I know you didn't mean to, but you did do it. That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a– " "I hate that word hulking," objected Tom crossly, "even in kidding." "Hulking," insisted Daisy. (1.67-72)
"Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once – but I loved you too." Gatsby's eyes opened and closed. (7.264-266)
"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?" "Don't be morbid," Jordan said. "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." (7.74-75)
“I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘Alright,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” ~Daisy
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - They smashed things up and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let others clean up the mess they had made…” ~Nick
“I hope she’ll be a fool, that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
“All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don’t come back.”
“It makes me sad… I’ve just never seen such beautiful shirts before.”
“It’s perfect, from your perfect irresistible imagination.”
“I wish we could just run away.”
“You want too much. I love you now isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.”
7th Daisy
“Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.”
“We haven’t met for many years,”
“You’re just embarrassed, that’s all,” and luckily I added: “Daisy’s embarrassed too.”
“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such — such beautiful shirts before.”
“Did you notice Daisy’s face when that girl asked her to put her under a cold shower?”
“I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them.”
“I-I’m paralyzed with happiness”
“I don’t want to go home
1st Gatsby
“My life has to be like this old sport, I just have to keep going up.”-Gatsby
“But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.”-Nick
“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.” -Nick
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.”-Nick
“He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.”-Nick
“He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced — or seemed to face — the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”-Nick
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.… [Gatsby had] 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.-Nick
“He doesn’t want any trouble with anybody.” (stranger. ch3)
“It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you, that, at your best, you hoped to convey.” (Nick. Ch3)
“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” (Nick. Ch 8)
“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” (Gatsby. Ch 6)
“He talked alot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.” (Nick. Ch 6)
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” (Nick. Ch 5)
1.)His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people — his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. (Ch6) 2.)The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. (Ch.6) 3.)He was a son of God — a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that — and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. (ch.6) 4.)So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end. (ch.6) 5.)“Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.” (Ch.3)
“Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once” - Jordan Baker about Jay Gatsby, chapter 3
“I want to get the grass cut” - Jay Gatsby, chapter 5
“Look at this, here’s a lot of clippings - about you” - Jay Gatsby, chapter 5
“I hear you fired all your servants” - Nick Carraway to Gatsby, chapter 7
“Daisy’s leaving you” - Gatsby to Tom, chapter 7
“If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay,”(CH. 5) “What about it?” said Gatsby politely. “I guess your friend Walter Chase wasn’t too proud to come in on it.”(CH. 7) “Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.(CH.3) “I don’t think it’s so much that,” argued Lucille sceptically; “it’s more that he was a German spy during the war.(CH.3) “He’s a bootlegger,” said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. “One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.”(CH.4) Fine fellow, isn’t he? Handsome to look at and a perfect gentleman.”(CH.4) “Yeah, Gatsby’s very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friend’s wife.”(CH.8) “Yes.... well, I can’t talk now.... I can’t talk now, old sport.... I said a small town...
. he must know what a small town is.... well, he’s no use to us if Detroit is his idea of a small town.... ”(CH.5) ““They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.””(Nick,8)
““I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!” He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
- “The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime…” (chapter 4)
- “He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.” (chapter 3)
- “ Nicky he's a madman” (got it from the movie)
6.“I found out what your ‘drug-stores’ were.” He turned to us and spoke rapidly. “He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn’t far wrong.” (chapter 7)
“ Im Gatsby...I thought you knew old sport. Im afraid im not a very good host.”
“One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.”
“My house looks well, doesn’t it?” he demanded. “See how the whole front of it catches the light.”
“If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay,” said Gatsby. “You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.”
“Your wife doesn’t love you,” said Gatsby. “She’s never loved you. She loves me.”
“I know your wife,” continued Gatsby, almost aggressively.
1st Nick
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone” he told me, “just remember that all people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (chapter 1)
“I love to see you at my table, Nick, you remind me of a - of a rose, an absolute rose. Does’nt he?” (chapter 1)
“This was untrue. I am not even faintly like a rose. She was only extemporizing, but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words” (chapter 1)
“There is always a halt there of at least a minute, and it was because of this that I first met Toms Bucahanan’s mistress” (chapter 2)
“Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!” shouted Mrs. Wilson “I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai--. Making a short deft movement, Tom BUchanan broke her nose with his open hand” (chapter 2)
“I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.” (chapter 3)
“For awhile I lost sight of Jordan Baker, and then in midsummer I found her again. At first I was flattered to go places with her. because she was a golf champion, and everyone knew her name. Then it was something more. I wasn’t actually in love, but i felt sort of tender curiosity. The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something - most affectations conceal something eventually - even though they don’t in the beginning- and one day i found what it was.” (chapter 3)
“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that i have ever known” (chapter 3)
“Suddenly I wasn’t thinking of Daisy and Gatsby any more, but of this clean, hard, limited person, who dealt in universal spectism, and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm.” (chapter 4)
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“Possibly it had occurred to Gatsby that the colossal significance of that light had vanished forever. Now it was once again just a green light on a dock.”
“They were careless people. Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
“But not a single one of the sparkling hundreds that enjoyed his hospitality attended the funeral. And from Daisy, not even a flower. I was all he had. The only one who cared.”
“They’re a rotten crowd... you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
“Jay, you can’t repeat the past.”
It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.
vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together. And let other people clean up the mess they had made."
"But not a single one of the sparkling hundreds that enjoyed his hospitality attended the funeral. And from Daisy. Not even a flower. I was all he had. The only one who cared."
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther... ” (Chapter 9) “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” (Chapter
“I bought cakes.” (Movie) “For the second time that summer, I was guarding other people’s secrets.” (Movie) “Once again that summer, I was within and without.” (Movie) “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made... ” (Chapter
¨They look out of no face, but instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.” (Chapter 2) ¨But his eyes, dimmed a little by paintless days, broad on over the solemn dumping ground.”(Chapter 2) “ I Believe that on the first night i went to Gatsby’s house, I was one of the few guest who had actually been invited.” “ This Mr. Gatsby you speak of is my neighbor”
