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GATSBY AND GRAPES SHORT QUOTES - Coggle Diagram
GATSBY AND GRAPES SHORT QUOTES
WOMEN
GRAPES
'if Ma ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall'
'the world was pregnant to (ROS); she thought only in terms of reproduction and motherhood'
Ma jack-handle
GATSBY
'her voice is like money'
'the kind of voice the ear follows up and down'
'dishonesty is never a thing you blame deeply in a woman'
WEALTH/POVERTY
GRAPES
'I wisht there was some way to make a livin...'
'if he needs a million acres to make him feel rich...'
'there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue...there's just stuff people do'
'almighty God never raised no wages'
'the comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people'
GATSBY
'they smashed up things and people and retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness'
'simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life'
'there are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired' - the Joads are all of those
THE AMERICAN DREAM
GRAPES
'han'bills'
'I like to think how nice it's gonna be...in California'
'if he needs a million acres to feel rich...'
'don't roust your faith bird-high, and you won't do no crawlin' with the worms'
GATSBY
'Gatsby believed in the green light'
'orgastic future that year by year recedes before us'
'(Daisy) stumbled short of Gatsby's dreams'
'love' mentioned 20x, 'money' mentioned 10x
Gatsby only uses swimming pool once Daisy is gone
'collossal vitality of his illusion'
'one of those smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it'
BEGINNINGS
GRAPES
'maybe we can start again...in California'
'only a baby can start'
'this red land is us; the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us'
GATSBY
'Jay Gatsby of West Egg...sprang from a platonic conception of himself'
'shiftless farm people'
'the orgastic future'
Nick - 'I snobbishly repeat'
'remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages you've had'
'I am one of the few honest people I have ever known'
ENDINGS
GRAPES
'smiled mysteriously'
'wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat...I'll be there'
'use 'ta be fambly was fust...now it's anybody'
GATSBY
'borne back ceaselessly into the past'
'dutch sailors'
'I tried to think about Gatsby...he was already too far away'
OUTSIDERS AND MIGRANTS
GRAPES
'they ain't human'
'new waves were on the way'
'a human being wouldn't live like they do'
'I feel like people again'
Tractor driver - 'three dollars a day...for my kids to eat'
'the people in flight from the terror behind'
'it's bein' hurt that makes folks mad to fighting'
'there's a thin line between hunger and anger'
'if you're in trouble...go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help'
GATSBY
'I was within and without'
'grey men swarmed'
'no French bob touched Gatsby's shoulder'
'imitation...of a French chateau'
'Daisy, Gatsby, Jordan and I...contained some deficiency in common that made us unadaptable to Eastern life'
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
GRAPES
'all we got is family unbroken'
'like a bunch of cows...stick all together'
'use 'ta be the fambly was fust. Now it's anybody'
'maybe all men got one big soul everybody's a part of'
'graveyard ghos'
'the man that is more than his elements knows that the land is more than its analysis'
'grampa and the old place, they was jus' the same thing'
'change from 'I' to 'we'
'the break could never come as long as fear could turn to wrath'
GATSBY
'shiftless farm people'
'grey men swarmed'
'big parties are so intimate'
'I wasn't actually in love...I felt more of a tender curiosity'
CAPITALISM, CRIME AND GREED
GRAPES
'the bank - the monster has to have profits all the time'
'when it stops growing, it dies'
'there is little difference between a tractor and a tank'
'children dying of pellagra because profit cannot be take from an orange'
'sedan driver'
'a red is any son of a bitch that wants 30 cents an hour when we're only paying 25'
'raping without passion'
'you can be a good guy...even if some rich bastard makes you carry a sticker'
'machine men'
'a crop raised, that makes ownership'
GATSBY
'it never occurred to me that one man could play with the faith of 50m people'
'I was within and without...simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life '
'ashes grow...take the forms of ash-grey men'
'I'll sell it somewhere else then'
SETTINGS
GRAPES
'the last rains came gently, and did not cut the scarred earth'
'the dust settled on people's shoulders'
GATSBY
'ashes grow...take the forms of ash-grey men'
'imitation...of a French chateau'
'grey men swarmed'
'Daisy's...artificial world'
'and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music'