GATSBY

• something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life
• extraordinary gift for hope
• romantic readiness
• it was testament to the romantic speculation he inspired
• [his smile has] the quality of eternal reassurance
• elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd
• a sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host
• “He was never quite still”
• •“it was like skimming through a dozen magazines"
• •“Gatsby’s very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friends wife”
• •“it had not been merely to the stars to which he had aspired on that June night”
• -Gatsby, pale as death

  -His head leaned back so far that it rested against the face of a defunct mantelpiece clock

  -You’re acting like a little boy
• -He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exulatation a new well-being radiated from him… an ecstatic patron of recurrent light
• -He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes
• -His imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all

  -Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself

  -They [women] were hysterical about things which in his over-whelming self-absorption he took for granted.
• -The vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man

  -He had been very slowly bending towards her all evening to attain this proximity
• -Cant repeat the past… why of course you can

  -He looked around him wildly as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house

  -Some idea of himself that had gone into loving Daisy
• -His career as Trimalchio was over

  -You resemble the advertisement of a man (daisy)
• -In her heart she never loved anyone except me
• Jay Gatsby had broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice

  Indiscernible barbed wire between

  Invisible cloak of his uniform

  He took what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously- eventually he took Daisy

  He let her believe that he was a person from much the same strata as herself

  He had committed himself to the following of a grail

  He felt married to her that was all

  Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves
• Paid a high price for living too long with a single dream
• Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us