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The rise and fall of the American dream
Dream Achieved
Chapter 6:Full of Confidence
Chapter 5:Rise in Power
“Daisy and Gatsby danced. I remember being surprised by his graceful, conservative fox-trot—I had never seen him dance before.”(95)
“He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’ After she had obliterated three years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken.”(98)
“Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”(99)
Full of Confidence
‘I’m going to call up Daisy tomorrow and invite her over here to tea.’(75)
‘We haven’t met for many years,’ said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be.(79)
‘They’re such beautiful shirts,’ she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. ‘It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.’(’84)
“They had forgotten me, but Daisy glanced up and held out her hand; Gatsby didn’t know me now at all. I looked once more at them and they looked back at me, remotely, possessed by intense life. Then I went out of the room and down the marble steps into the rain, leaving them there together.”(87)
Rise in Power
Chapter 3:Encouraged
More Encouraged
‘I’m Gatsby,’ he said suddenly.
‘What!’ I exclaimed. ‘Oh, I beg your pardon.’(49)
“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”(58)
Chapter 4: More Encouraged
“Then it was all true. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.”(64)
“‘Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.’”(73)
‘Does she want to see Gatsby?’
‘She’s not to know about it. Gatsby doesn’t want her to
know. You’re just supposed to invite her to tea.’(74)
Encouraged
Chapter 1:Encouraged
“The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion. Or rather, as I didn’t know Mr. Gatsby it was a mansion inhabited by a gentleman of that name. My own house was an eye-sore, but it was a small eye-sore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor’s lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month.” (8-9)
“Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens” (24)
Hopeful
Chapter 2: Hopeful
Chapter 8: Discouraged
‘I live at West Egg.’
‘Really? I was down there at a party about a month ago.
At a man named Gatsby’s. Do you know him?’
‘I live next door to him.’
‘Well, they say he’s a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm’s.
That’s where all his money comes from.’
‘Really?’
She nodded.(15)
Chapter 7: Eager
‘Nothing happened,’ he said wanly. ‘I waited, and about
four o’clock she came to the window and stood there for a
minute and then turned out the light.’(128)
‘I suppose Daisy’ll call too.’ He looked at me anxiously as if he hoped I’d corroborate this.(133)
“First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile, as if we’d been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the time.”(134)
Eager
“But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg.”(29)
‘Oh, you want too much!’ she cried to Gatsby. ‘I love you now—isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.’(116)
‘Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom,’ she admitted in a pitiful voice. ‘It wouldn’t be true.’ ‘Of course it wouldn’t,’ agreed Tom. She turned to her husband.(116)
“He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight—watching over nothing.”(127)
Discouraged
No hope
Chapter 9: No hope
“I called up Daisy half an hour after we found him, called her instinctively and without hesitation. But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them.”(143)
“I couldn’t forgive him or like him but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made”(156)