Gatsby quotes

Pregunta	Respuesta
Setting showing sadness and depression amoungst a group of people	The Valley of Ashes "This is a valley of ashes,a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges
A symbol that proves Daisy's shallowness and materialism	The shirts "It makes me sad because I've never seen such beautiful shirts before"
The use of language here foreshadows the death of Myrtle by using word choice	Gatsby's car "It was rich in cream colour... swollen her and there in it's monstrous length"
Description of Tom that proves he knows he is in control	Tom's eyes "Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face"
Setting that symbolises new money	West Egg "I lived in West Egg... the less fashionable of the two"
A symbol that represents Daisy to Gatsby	The green light "A single green light minute and far away"
A part of Gatsby's house that shows that he is new to money	The Ivy "...spanking new under a thin beard of ivy"
The whole reason Gatsby changed who he was and why he gained all his money	Daisy "I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody"
Tom breaks through to the real Gatsby	A poor man "...let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your life"
The house that symbolises established / old money	The Buchannans house "...a cheerful red and white Georgian colonial mansion overlooking the bay"
Who Gatsby was before he changed himself to be the man he is now	James Gatz - Jay Gatsby "Jay Gatsby...sprung from the platonic version of himself"
The thing that's clouded Gatsbys reality	The dream "The colossal vitality of his illusion"
The things people say about Gatsby that aren't true	The rumours "Someone told me he once killed a man" "He was an Oxford man" "He was a German spy during the war"
The quote you should put in every essay that sums up the theme of "Social hierarchy"	The lower class characters "The holocaust was complete"
A description of the Buchannans home	New money "glistening palaces"
The thing Gatsby is trying to do with Daisy	Repeat the past "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can"
What happens to Gatsby's house after he takes the blame for Daisy killing Myrtle	Dust "there was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere"
A technique Fitzgerald uses to foreshadow the tension in Manhattan	Pathetic Fallacy "it was almost the last, certainly the warmest of summer"
A symbol of hope in the Valley of Ashes	The Wilson's house "the only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick"
Another foreshadow into the tension in Manhattan	The carpet "Gatsby stood in the centre of the crimson carpet"

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