Great Gatsby Quotes and Questions
"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
"Oh, you want too much! I love you now—isn't that enough? I can't help what's past. I did love him once—but I loved you too."
Daisy
"They're beautiful shirts....It makes me sad because I've never seen such—such beautiful shirts before."
Daisy
"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"
Gatsby
"I'll tell you God's truth. I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West—all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford."
Gatsby
"If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay. You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock."
Gatsby
"I'm one of the trusting fellas and I don't think any harm to nobody, but when I get to know a thing I know it. It was the man in the car. She ran out to speak to him and he wouldn't stop."
George
Gatsby's real name is...
Jay Gatz
"Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dais—"
Myrtle
"I married him because I thought he was a gentleman. I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe. 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."
Myrtle
"I want to get one of those dogs. I want to get one for the apartment. They're nice to have—a dog."
Myrtle
"They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
Nick
From where does Gatsby recognize Nick?
They fought in the same battle in WW1.
"Civilization's going to pieces. I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read 'The Rise of the Colored Empires' by this man Goddard?....It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things."
Tom
"Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the same."
Tom
"I raised him up out of nothing, right out of the gutter. I saw right away he was a fine-appearing gentlemanly young man."
Wolfsheim
When Gatsby meets Daisy again he acts...
awkward and clumsy
Nick finds Gatsby unusual because at his he...
doesn't drink
Despite the fact that Gatsby was a bootlegger with ties to organized crime, Nick still feels he was better than the whole rotten bunch of others because...
he shows a depth of character and feeling that the others often lack
Myrtle says what embarrasses her most about having married George Wilson is that...
he's poor and has no social position
Wolfsheim's cufflinks are made of...
human molars
Gatsby's dream of having Daisy in his life forever takes shape in his mind when he...
kissed her for the first time
The narrator, Nick Carraway, describes himself as...
nonjudgemental
On Daisy's wedding day, she....
received a letter from Gatsby, got drunk, and tried to stop the wedding
Nick sees a mysterious Gatsby stretching out his arms in worship to...
the green light on the end of Daisy's dock
Myrtle ran out to the "death car" because she...
thought it was Tom