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Gatsby quotes
Cards in this deck (20)
- 1Setting showing sadness and depression amoungst a group of peopleThe Valley of Ashes
"This is a valley of ashes,a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges - 2A symbol that proves Daisy's shallowness and materialismThe shirts
"It makes me sad because I've never seen such beautiful shirts before" - 3The use of language here foreshadows the death of Myrtle by using word choiceGatsby's car
"It was rich in cream colour... swollen her and there in it's monstrous length" - 4Description of Tom that proves he knows he is in controlTom's eyes
"Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face" - 5Setting that symbolises new moneyWest Egg
"I lived in West Egg... the less fashionable of the two" - 6A symbol that represents Daisy to GatsbyThe green light
"A single green light minute and far away" - 7A part of Gatsby's house that shows that he is new to moneyThe Ivy
"...spanking new under a thin beard of ivy" - 8The whole reason Gatsby changed who he was and why he gained all his moneyDaisy
"I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody" - 9Tom breaks through to the real GatsbyA poor man
"...let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your life" - 10The house that symbolises established / old moneyThe Buchannans house
"...a cheerful red and white Georgian colonial mansion overlooking the bay" - 11Who Gatsby was before he changed himself to be the man he is nowJames Gatz - Jay Gatsby
"Jay Gatsby...sprung from the platonic version of himself" - 12The thing that's clouded Gatsbys realityThe dream
"The colossal vitality of his illusion" - 13The things people say about Gatsby that aren't trueThe rumours
"Someone told me he once killed a man"
"He was an Oxford man"
"He was a German spy during the war" - 14The quote you should put in every essay that sums up the theme of "Social hierarchy"The lower class characters
"The holocaust was complete" - 15A description of the Buchannans homeNew money
"glistening palaces" - 16The thing Gatsby is trying to do with DaisyRepeat the past
"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can" - 17What happens to Gatsby's house after he takes the blame for Daisy killing MyrtleDust
"there was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere" - 18A technique Fitzgerald uses to foreshadow the tension in ManhattanPathetic Fallacy
"it was almost the last, certainly the warmest of summer" - 19A symbol of hope in the Valley of AshesThe Wilson's house
"the only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick" - 20Another foreshadow into the tension in ManhattanThe carpet
"Gatsby stood in the centre of the crimson carpet"
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