tgg quotes

• Chapter 1, on her hopes for her future daughter: "that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
• Chapter 5: Gatsby's loss of control through time: "...he was running down like an overwound clock"
• Chapter 9: Nick's final analysis of Gatsby: "Gatsby believed in the green light"
• Chapter 5, Is Daisy materialistic or in love? "It makes me sad because I've never seen such...such beautiful shirts before"
• Chapter 7, what Gatsby associates Daisy with: "Her voice is full of money"
• Chapter 2, the brutalisation of women, and the poor early on: "Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand."
• Chapter 7: the objectification of Myrtle even in death: "...damp with perspiration...her left breast swinging loose...The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners..."
• The moral decay of America: "God sees everything.'That's an advertisement.'" Wilson and Michaelis, Chapter 8
• Chapter 1, Tom's insecurity in his position: "...if we don't look out, the white race will be- will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved."
• Chapter 4, the moral corruption of the wealthy: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy" "they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness"
• Chapter 7, Tom's revelation of Gatsby's criminality: "He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter."
• Chapter 3, Nick's idealised view of Gatsby and his secrets: "the romantic speculation he inspired"
• Chapter 5, Gatsby's desperation for Daisy's approval: "he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes"
• Chapter 5, Gatsby's idealised view of Daisy, "the colossal vitality of his illusion"
• Chapter 8, Nick about upper class society: "they're a rotten crowd"
• Chapter 9, Nick's concluding analysis of Gatsby and his motivations: "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."
• Chapter 2, we are introduced to the Valley of Ashes, "where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke."
• Jordan Baker tells Nick Carraway in Chapter 2, "“Tom’s got some woman in New York.”
• Chapter 2, the depiction of alcoholism: "floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside"
• Chapter 4, Highlights the inherent tragedy of the American dream, Gatsby: "paid a high price for living too long with a single dream."
• Gatsby dissociated with what is revealed in Chapter 6, the "shiftless and unsuccessful farm people" of his past
• Chapter 6, Gatsby even described as a Christ figure in the eyes of Nick: "He was a son of God"
• In Chapter 6, Nick claims that Gatsby serves, "the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty."
• In Chapter 8, Gatsby reminisces claiming that Daisy has always been "just out of reach."
• Gatsby's disillusionment with what he has pursued is narrated by Nick in Chapter 8 "what a grotesque thing a rose is…