Quotes On The Great Gatsby

Quote : 1 "This is a valley of ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable

I am reading The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book is about a man in his early twenties, writing about his experience in New York during the 1920’s. He moves into this house next to the giant mansion, known as Gatsby’s house and slowly learns more and more about him. After learning everything the ending comes with a tragic twist and it shows the reasoning behind Nick Carraway (the main character/narrator) writing this novel in the first place. I will be questioning what what the “big

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by author F. Scott Fitzgerald that tells the story of many characters through the eyes of one of the main characters, Nick Carraway. In chapter eight (pg.121), Nick states: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed 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 made." Throughout this novel, there were multiple events that

Speaker/Page Quote Significance Nick, pg 1 “... my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my head ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me “just remember all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” This quote gives the reader the idea that Nick has a distinct mindset. Nick has had many advantages but still is able to reserve his judgement of other people which is something not many characters in the book are able to

broad daylight. While Nick portrays Daisy a lovely, slightly airheaded girl, the readers are able to see another aspect of Daisy’s slightly more mature, cynical perspective here, when she confesses to Nick in a more private setting. This particular quote is quite important, as it talks about the moment Daisy knew the gender of her baby. It is surprising that Daisy wishes her baby daughter to be a fool, as most parents

Saurabh Chawla quotes “Never fall in love with anyone or anything you are obsessed with. Remember, Love is eternal, but Obsession dies out too soon!”(Saurabh Chawla) In the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald states that Gatsby was truly in love with Daisy, even though she was already married. At first Gatsby was poor so Daisy couldn’t marry him unless he was rich, but she still loved him. So then Gatsby becomes rich and lives in the biggest mansion, so now daisy is so inlove with him and having affairs

Quote of the Book: “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” This quote is on the first page of the book and is the very first two sentences. This passage caught my eye as soon as it was read, it stood out. It shows that the story is going to have a good

The Great Gatsby quotes (chapter, paragraph) “There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and he champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his motor-boats slid the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus

The Great Gatsby By Fitzgerald is a novel with an occurring theme, this theme is that the past must stay in the past, and that no matter how badly one should like to relive it, no good outcome in presented when chasing something you can never catch; the past. Fitzgerald uses Gatsby to establish this theme, from the time they first meet to the time Gatsby told Nick his intentions of reuniting with Daisy. When we see Gatsby standing At the end of the dock reaching for the green light he is remembering

To begin, in The Great Gatsby Tom Buchanan is a man full of superiority and is described as “sturdy, straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. Two shining, arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face, and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward … you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous leverage—a cruel body.” (Fitzgerald, 7) Tom Buchanan is a