Cards (31)

  • 'they were careless people, Tom and Daisy' - Daisy
  • 'they're such beautiful shirts' - Daisy
  • 'I'm p-paralyzed with happiness' - Daisy
  • 'i hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.' - Daisy
  • 'I am one of the few honest people I have ever known' - Nick
  • 'so we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past' - Nick
  • 'there are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired' - Nick
  • 'old sport' - Gatsby
  • 'his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one' - Gatsby
  • 'he was running down like an overwound clock' - Gatsby
  • 'the white race - will be utterly submerged' - Tom
  • 'mr nobody from nowhere' - Tom about Gatsby
  • 'a blond, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome' - Wilson
  • 'a white ashen dust veiled his dark suit' - Wilson
  • 'there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her' - myrtle
  • 'she had changed her dress to a brown figured muslin which stretched tight over her rather wide hips' - Myrtle
  • 'like a young cadet' - Jordan
  • 'too wise to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age' - Jordan
  • 'a small flat-nosed jew' - Wolfsheim
  • 'i raised him up out of nothing' - Wolfsheim about Gatsby
  • 'a cruel body' - Nick on Tom
  • 'two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon' - Nick on Daisy and Jordan
  • 'the white race will be - will be utterly submerged' - Tom
  • 'i'm pretty cynical about everything' - Daisy
  • 'as she expanded the room grew smaller around her' - Nick on Myrtle
  • 'she was incurably dishonest' - Jordan
  • 'even gatsby could happen, without any particular wonder' - nick
  • 'his count of enchanted objects had diminished by one'
  • 'her voice is full of money' - Gatsby about Daisy
  • 'an oxford man!' 'like hell he is! he wears a pink suit'
  • 'god sees everything' - Wilson looking at Dr T.J. Eckleburg's eyes