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The Great Gatsby quotes, Pain and loss, Enduring love, Separation, Lust…
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Pain and loss
“[Gatsby] must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, and paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.”
“it was what preyed on Gatsby,what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams.”
“He found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.”
“After Gatsby’s death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes’ power of correction”-Chapter 9
“a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest”
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"transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air" the valley of ashes
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. The Great Gatsby. Chapter 9, Confused after his Gatsby experience, Nick turns his back on Jordan and all the things the East represents.
"I'm sick" - Wilson is love sick, his romantic reaction to Myrtle betraying him, page 78
"Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished"
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money"
"he must have felt he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream."
Enduring love
“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.” links to the theme memory”
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“boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”-chapter 9
"Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes."Chapter 5
"He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: 'I never loved you'... just as if it were five years ago. "
"griefs of wild and unknown men" chapter 1. Gatsby's lifestyle where he hosts parties just to gain the attention from Daisy this sense of continuous grief just to reach her.
"can't repeat the past? Why, of cause you can!
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Separation
“distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away”- chapter one
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"It wasn't a coincidence at all... Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay"
chapter 4
“a bright rosy coloured space, fragilely bound into the house by french windows at either end” Buchanan's house
"He stayed there a week, walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together" chapter 8
"I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all" chapter 9
Lust and desire
“Had gone beyond her, beyond everything”
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"Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, " (Tom about his infidelity) tom is a symbol for lust
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"It excited him, too that many men had already loved Daisy it increased her value in his eyes"
Time/the past/memory
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
chapter 9
“if that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long of a dream”
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"He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: 'I never loved you'... just as if it were five years ago. "
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“he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don’t think he had ever believed in its existence before”
Unrequited love
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“Of course she might have loved him just for a minute, when they were first married- and loved me more even then, do you see?”
chapter 8
“he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don’t think he had ever believed in its existence before” chapter 7
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"I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe" chapter 2
idealised love
“He found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.”-chapter 8 last moments of Gatsby before he died.
"He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: 'I never loved you'... just as if it were five years ago. "
“it excited him, too that many men had already loved Daisy-it increased her value in his eyes”
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