Quotes For The Great Gatsby

21. I think the shirt scene shows the love Gatsby and Daisy have/had for eachother, like in that moment all that mattered to them was each other and the strong love they kept for each other the five years they hadn’t been together , and personally I like the thought of Daisy and Gatsby being together.

22. The green light had once stood for Gatsby’s hope to have an ideal marriage with Daisy. Gatsby’s view of the green light across the bay is enchanting because Gatsby is taken up with the idea of fulfilling his dreams (and marrying Daisy). Daisy house is located right next to the green light; and when she retreats to her house Daisy goes beyond Gatsby 's reach, ending the enchantment.

23. I think that the quote about Gatsby

In the first paragraph words such as stir, bustle, secret place above the trees, incomparable, wonder, humming, changes, contribute to the tone of mysterious excitement establish in the first of the three paragraphs. I think the incarnation scene means that once they kiss there is this new longing love born and they they get a taste of the people they want to be and the life they want to have.

28. Gatsby’s view of love for Daisy is idealistic from the beginning but is corrupt as all ideals are: they are unrealistic; too good to be true.

29. Nick describes the charm of Daisy’s voice as “full of money”; he describes her later in that paragraph as “the golden girl”. In a sense to cash money Daisy is connected to his father 's vulgar work (mostly revolving/involving a nice flow of cash.)

30. It is revealed in this chapter to both Tom Buchanan and George Wilson that their wives are having affairs with other men; basically that their wives have another life apart from them.

31. Myrtle draws two conclusions when tom is filling the car with gas: First off she thinks that the yellow car belongs to Tom; secondly she goes ahead and assumes that Jordan Baker is Tom’s

In this section Wilson is going on and on about how god sees everything, as he’s talking about god he’s looking at the billboard of Dr. Eckleburg (who also “sees” everything). Michaelis presumes that Wilson is seeing the advertisement as god or a god like figure and reassures him that it’s only an advertisement.

42. I believe that the figure moving towards Gatsby is Wilson. Wilson of course thinks that Gatsby is the one who killed Myrtle, so he goes there to kill Gatsby. On the other hand it might be Daisy or some vision Gatsby has about what could have been with him and Daisy.

43. In the last sentence of chapter eight Fitzgerald uses the word holocaust to describe the devastation and destruction of Gatsby 's fall. Ever since what happened with Wilson and his wife I can imagine Wilson has been trying to get Gatsby, and now it’s finally complete, all the trouble and tension has almost vanished out of a window.

44. From what I got Ben Franklin set up plans to achieve moral perfection, when Meyer Wolfsheim talks about how Gatsby used to be and how he took Gatsby in and raised him up from nothing to achieve the perfection that even Gatsby saw for himself even as a young