TGG

Created by

Bia Stroud

Cards (49)

Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have unaffected scorn 
Nick
Chapter 1
I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler 
Nick
Chapter 1
Two shining arrogant eyes 
Nick
Chapter 1
He seemed to say "just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are" 
Nick about Tom
Chapter 1
They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering 
Nick about Daisy and Jordan
Chapter 1
I enjoyed looking at her 
Nick about Jordan
Chapter 1
Have you read The Rise of the Coloured Empires 
Tom
Chapter 1
If we don't look out the white race will be - will be utterly submerged 
Tom
Chapter 1
"Tom's got some woman in New York" 
Jordan about Myrtle
Chapter 1
This fifth guest's shrill metallic urgency 
Nick about Myrtle
Chapter 1
That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool 
Daisy
Chapter 1
As she expanded the room grew smaller around her 
Nick about Myrtle
Chapter 2
Daisy was not a Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie 
Nick
Chapter 2
I was within and without 
Nick
Chapter 2
"Daisy! Dai—" making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose 
Nick
Chapter 2
I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited 
Nick
Chapter 3
A tray of cocktails floated at us 
Nick
Chapter 3
Whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd 
Nick about Gatsby
Chapter 3
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you can never blame deeply 
Nick
Chapter 3
I lived like a young rajah 
Gatsby to Nick
Chapter 4
Trying to present himself as exotic and rich
A small, flat-nosed Jew 
Nick about Wolfshiem
Chapter 4
He gave her a string of pearls.... Tell em all Daisy's change her mine 
Jordan
Chapter 4
He came alive to me 
Jordan to Nick about Gatsby after he confessed his elaborate life so far to get Daisy
Chapter 4
Pale as death 
Nick about Gatsby
Chapter 5
His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one 
Nick about Gatsby
Chapter 5
Daisy tumbled short of his dreams... because of the colossal vitality of his illusion 
Nick about Gatsby
Chapter 5
His heart was in a constant, turbulent riot 
Nick about Gatsby when he was younger
Chapter 6
he wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say "i never loved you" 
Nick about Gatsby
Chapter 6
At his lips touch she blossomed like a flower 
Nick about Daisy + Gatsby
Chapter 6
"Now she's going whether she wants to or not" 
Wilson
Chapter 7
Shows how Myrtle never had any power because she is a poor woman and is being controlled by a man who is 'so dumb he doesn't know he's alive
Tom was feeling hot whips of panic. His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control 
Nick
Chapter 7
"I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back" 
Tom
Chapter 7
"You want too much" 
Daisy
Chapter 7
Gatsby had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice 
Nick
Chapter 7
Her life violently extinguished 
Nick about Myrtle
Chapter 7
The use of extinguished suggests that her life was always very precarious, and her life reflects her dreams of moving social strata
Her left breast was swinging loose like a flap 
Nick about Myrtle
Chapter 7
There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy 
Nick about Tom and Daisy
Chapter 7
It excited him too, that many men had already loved Daisy— it increased her value in his eyes 
Nick about Gatsby
Chapter 8
He had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person from much the same strata as herself 
Nick about Gatsby
Chapter 8
He knew that he had lost a part of it, the freshest and the best, forever 
Nick about Gatsby
Chapter 8