Great Gatsby

• "Platonic conception of himself." Nick talking about gatsby (chapter 6)
• "Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life." - Nick (chapter 9)
• But [Doctor Eckleburg’s] eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under the sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground. - Nick
• [H]e stretched out his arms toward the dark water. . . . I . . . distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far way. . . . When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished...
• "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and . . . then retreated back into their money . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
• "I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." - Daisy (chapter 1)
• less fashionable of the two