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17 Cards in this Set
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Quote for Gatsby.
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'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eterenal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.' 'Precisely at that point it vanished - and I was looking at an elegant young roughneck.' (Chapter 3, page 32)
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Quote for Nick.
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'I have been drunk just drunk twice in my life.' (Chapter 2, page 19)
'I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.' (Chapter 3, page 39) |
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Quote for Jordan.
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'With her chin raised a little, as if she were balancing something on it.' (Chapter 1, page 7)
'Her grey sun-strained eyes' 'Wan, charming, discontented face.' (Chapter 1, page 9) |
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Quote for Tom.
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'He was a sturdy straw-haired man, with a rather hard mouth and a superlicious manner.' (Chapter 1, page 6)
'It was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body.' (Chapter 1, page 7) |
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Quote for Daisy.
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'Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean forward toward her, an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.' 'Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it.' (Chapter 1, page 8)
'Her voice is full of money.' (Chapter 7, page 76) 'I'll be the man smoking two cigarettes.' (Chapter 7, page 80) |
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Quote for Myrtle.
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'Thickish figure of a woman.' (Chapter 2, page 17)
'She carried her flesh senuously' 'As if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.' (Chapter 2, page 18) 'Her left breast was swinging loose like a flap.' (Chapter 7, page 80) |
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Quote for George.
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'He was a blond, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome.' (Chapter 2, page 17)
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Quote for New York.
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'There's something very sensuous about it, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.' (Chapter 7, page 80) (Garden of Eden?)
'Warm and soft, almost pastoral.' (Chapter 2, page 19) |
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Quote for West Egg.
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'I lived at West Egg, the - well, less fashionable of the two.' (Chapter 1, page 5)
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Quote for East Egg.
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'The white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water.' (Chapter 1, page 6)
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Quote for Valley of Ashes.
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'Desolate area of land' 'Ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and finally, ash-grey men' (Chapter 2, page 16)
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Quote for Gatsby's house.
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'It was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy with a tower on one side spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy and a marble swimming pool.' (Chapter 1, page 5)
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Quote for the Buchanans' house.
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'A cheerful red-and-white Georgian colonial mansion.' (Chapter 1, page 6)
'Bright rose-coloured space, fragilely bound into the house by French windows.' 'A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and ou the other like pale flags.' 'The whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall.' (Chapter 1, page 7) |
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Quote for Tom and Myrtle's mansion.
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'The living-room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it.' (Chapter 2, page 20)
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Quote for George Wilson's garage.
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'The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was a dust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim corner.' (Chapter 2, page 17)
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Quote for consumerism.
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'A massage and a wave, and a collar for the dog, and one of those cute little ashtrays. And a wreath with a black silk bow for mother's grave.' (Chapter 2, page 25)
'Shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, [which] covered the table in many-coloured disarray.' 'Shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavendar and faint orange.' (Chapter 5, page 59) |
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Quote for the shady side of Gatsby & friends.
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'Finest specimens of human molars.' (Chapter 4, page 46) (Wolfshiem's cuff links)
'He was a German spy during the war.' 'I'll bet he killed a man.' (Chapter 3, page 29) |
