The Great Gatsby Name:

Quotation / Speaker / Analysis
1. “Her voice was full of money.”
2. “’Self-control!’ repeated Tom incredulously. ‘I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that’s the idea you can count me out…Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.’” (~p. 100)
3. “’You always look so cool,’ she repeated. She told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. He was astounded.” (~p. 125)
4. “’You dream, you. You absolute little dream.’”
5. “Her expression was curiously familiar – it was an expression I had often seem of women’s faces, but on Myrtle Wilson’s face it seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife.” (~p. 124-125)
6. “Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don’t think he had ever really believed in its existence before.” (~p. 117)
7. “Go away now, Old Sport?” (~p. 138)
8. “I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come , and perhaps he no longer cared.” (~p. 170)
9. “It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end.” (~p. )
10. “’They’re a rotten crowd,’ I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.’” (~p. 162)
11. “’God sees everything,’ repeated Wilson.” (~)
12. “He was clutching at some lost hope and I couldn’t bear to shake him free.” (~p. 140)
13. “Jay Gatsby hd broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice, the long secret extravaganza was played out.” (~p. 148)
14. “And all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately and the decision must be made by some force of love, of money, or unquestionable practicality – that was close at hand.” (~p. 114)
15. “I don’t think she ever loved him.”
16. “He might have despised himself, for he had certainly taken her under false pretenses. I don’t mean that he had traded on his phantom’s millions, but he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself…” (~)
17. “She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life leaving Gatsby – nothing.” (~p. 156-157)
18. “When a man killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out.” (~p. 171)
19. “You were his closest friend, so I know you’ll want to come to his funeral this afternoon.”
20. “He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”
21. “hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested.”
22. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy.”
23. “I found myself on Gatsby’s side and alone.” (~p. 172)
24. “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
25. “’Go on!’ He started. ‘Why, my God! They used to go there by the hundreds.’”