Gatsby Quotations
Myrtle's sister who tells Nick that the reason that Tom cannot divorce his wife is because Daisy is Catholic
Catherine
"All right, 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
"Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! I'll say it whenever I want."
Daisy
Who has a voice that has "an excitement in [it] that men who cared for her found difficult to forget"
Daisy
This man's eyes look out at you from a gigantic, faded old billboard in the Valley of Ashes
Dr. T.J. Eckelberg
Which character has an amazing smile?
Gatsby
"I'm going to make a big request of you today, so I thought you ought to know something about me. I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody."
Gatsby, to Nick on their way to lunch in Manhattan
"A blonde, spiritless man, anemic and faintly handsome"
George Wilson
Owns a garage in the Valley of Ashes
George Wilson
Who said, "You may fool me, but you can't fool God?"
George Wilson
"I hate careless people. That's why I like you."
Jordan
"Why--Tom's got some woman in New York."
Jordan
Who is often described as balancing invisible objects on her nose or chin?
Jordan
"It's just a crazy old thing...I just slip it on when I don't care what I look like"
Myrtle
described as a woman "in her middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can"
Myrtle
"The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out...I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried to beat the band all afternoon."
Myrtle, talking about marrying her husband George Wilson
"I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they mashed 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..."
Nick
"In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgements..."
Nick
"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
Nick's Dad
This place is "a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of chimneys and houses and...finally...of men..."
The Valley of Ashes
Mr. and Mrs. McKee
The two other guests at the apartment party in New York. They are low to middle class; Nick does not seem impressed by them.
Who is this quote ABOUT? "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life"
This quote is about Gatsby; Nick says it.
"Civilization's going to pieces...I've gotten to be terrible pessimist about things. Have you read 'The Rise of the Coloured Empires" by this man Goddard?"
Tom
"I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea, you can count me out...Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white."
Tom
"It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body." This statement describes whom?
Tom
