The Great Gatsby Chapter 1 quotes will help you understand the chapter deeper.
In Chapter 1, Nick Carraway recounts the events of the summer he spent in the East, reconstructing his story through a series of flashbacks.
He doesn’t say what happens, but he gives clues to the fate of Jay Gatsby and the American Dream.
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The great gatsby chapter 1 quotes and who said them in chronological order.
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway quoting his father), Chapter 1, Page 7
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“the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 7
“I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 7
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Gatsby (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 7
“the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 7
“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 7
“When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction—Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 7
“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”
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“The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on to-day.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 8
“Instead of being the warm center of the world, the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe – so I decided to go East and learn the bond business.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 8
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
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“I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 8
“There was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 8
“Now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the ‘well-rounded man.’ This isn’t just an epigram – life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 8
“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 9
“one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Tom Buchanan (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 9
“I lived at West Egg, the – well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard … My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, 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.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 9
“Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans. Daisy was my second cousin once removed, and I’d known Tom in college. And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 9
“Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven – a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 9
“Why they came East I don’t know. . . . This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn’t believe it—I had no sight into Daisy’s heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Daisy and Tom Buchanan (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 10
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“Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body – he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous leverage – a cruel body.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Tom Buchanan (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 10
“His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked – and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Tom Buchanan (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 10
“The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house. I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall. Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby,(Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 11
“The younger of the two was a stranger to me. She was extended full length at her end of the divan, completely motionless and with her chin raised a little as if she were balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall. If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it – indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having” disturbed her by coming in.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Jordan Baker (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 11
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“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 11
“At any rate, Miss Baker’s lips fluttered, she nodded at me almost imperceptibly, and then quickly tipped her head back again – the object she was balancing had obviously tottered a little and given her something of a fright. Again a sort of apology arose to my lips. Almost any exhibition of complete self-sufficiency draws a tribute from me.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Jordan Baker (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 11
“I looked back at my cousin, who began to ask me questions in her low, thrilling voice. It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered ‘Listen,’ a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Daisy Buchanan (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 11
“The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise–she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression–then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.
‘I’m p-paralyzed with happiness.’
She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had. She hinted in a murmur that the surname of the balancing girl was Baker. (I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.)”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Daisy (Nick Carraway as the narrator and Daisy Buchanan), Chapter 1, Page 11
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“Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Daisy Buchanan), Chapter 1, Page 13
“Before I could answer her eyes fastened with an awed expression on her little finger.
‘Look!’ she complained. ‘I hurt it.’
We all looked – the knuckle was black and blue.
‘You did it, Tom,’ she said accusingly. ‘I know you didn’t mean to, but you did do it. That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a – ‘
‘I hate that word hulking,’ objected Tom crossly, ‘even in kidding.’
‘Hulking,’ insisted Daisy.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Daisy and Tom Buchanan), Chapter 1, Page 13
“‘You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy,’ I confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘Can’t you talk about crops or something?’
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‘Civilization’s going to pieces. I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things…The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be – will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved…It’s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.’
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Tom Buchanan), Chapter 1, Page 13
“For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened – then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 14
‘It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about—things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. “All right,” I said, “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”’
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Daisy Buchanan) Chapter 1, Page 16
“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Daisy Buchanan) Chapter 1, Page 16
“I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated! ”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Daisy Buchanan), Chapter 1, Page 16
“Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the ‘Saturday Evening Post’ – the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune. The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms.
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 16
“We heard it from three people, so it must be true.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Daisy Buchanan), Chapter 1, Page 17
“As for Tom, the fact that he “had some woman in New York” was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 18
Who Dies In The Great Gatsby and How?
What is Chapter 1 about in The Great Gatsby?
Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby is about Nick Carraway’s arrival in West Egg, Long Island, and his introduction to the world of the wealthy and the mysterious Jay Gatsby.
It’s here, alongside the lavish parties and wild rumors of Gatsby’s past, that he begins to unravel the web of lies and secrets that Gatsby. The chapter ends with Nick wondering why Gatsby reaches his arms toward the green light across the bay.
How Does Gatsby Die in the Book?
What memorable quote does Nick Carraway say in Chapter 1?
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway quoting his father), Chapter 1, Page 7
What is an important quote in Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby?
“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Daisy Buchanan) Chapter 1, Page 16
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What quotes describe Gatsby’s house in Chapter 1?
“the one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard — 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, 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 eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, 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.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 9
How is Jay Gatsby presented in Chapter 1?
“Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction — Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the “creative temperament.”— it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No — Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and shortwinded elations of men.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Pages 7, 8
“The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight, and turning my head to watch it, I saw that I was
not alone — fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor’s mansion and was standing with his
hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars. 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.I decided to call to him…..But I didn’t call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone — he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward — and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far
away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 18
How is Daisy described in Chapter 1?
In Chapter 1, Daisy is introduced as a playful performer in social situations, as evidenced by her affected but playful stutter when she tells Nick that she is “p-paralyzed with happiness.” Nick describes her laughter as “absurd” and “charming.” Her voice is also highlighted, with Nick stating that it has an “excitement” and a “singing compulsion” that men find difficult to forget. This description of Daisy’s voice is emphasized throughout the novel, suggesting that it is one of her defining characteristics.
“The other girl, Daisy, made an attempt to rise — she leaned slightly forward with a conscientious expression — then she laughed, an absurd, charming little laugh, and I laughed too and came forward into the room.
“I’m p-paralyzed with happiness.” She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had. She hinted in a murmur that the surname of the balancing girl was Baker. (I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.)”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Daisy (Nick Carraway as the narrator and Daisy Buchanan), Chapter 1, Page 11
What hurt Gatsby in Chapter 1?
In Chapter 1, Nick Carraway reflects on what hurt Gatsby was the corruption and disintegration of the American Dream, which Gatsby had worked so hard to achieve. The foul dust that floated in the wake of his dreams is what temporarily closed out Nick’s interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
“it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and shortwinded elations of men.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 7
Is Nick Carraway honest in Chapter 1?
In Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway portrays himself as honest, stating that he is “one of the few honest people” he has ever known. However, he frequently lies by omission, and although he tries to be non-judgmental, he passes plenty of judgment on people in the novel. Overall, Nick’s honesty in Chapter 1 is somewhat questionable.
Why does Nick admire Gatsby in Chapter 1?
In Chapter 1, Nick admires Gatsby for his heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, which he compares to an intricate machine that registers earthquakes ten thousand miles away. Nick sees Gatsby’s extraordinary gift for hope and romantic readiness as something he has never found in any other person before and is not likely to find again.
How is Nick described in Chapter 1?
Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby has no physical description of Nick. However, it is mentioned that he is narrating the story.
How does Nick describe Tom in Chapter 1 quotes?
“Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven — a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. His family were enormously wealthy — even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, about Tom Buchanan (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 9
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“Two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body – he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing, and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat. It was a body capable of enormous leverage – a cruel body.”
~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, (Nick Carraway as the narrator), Chapter 1, Page 10
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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. '
What is a great quote from The Great Gatsby Chapter 1? ›In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. '
What is a quote from The Great Gatsby with page number? ›Here are some of the most famous quotes from The Great Gatsby about Daisy: “I loved her, old sport,” – Jay Gatsby, Chapter 8, Pages 92, 93. “It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy—it increased her value in his eyes.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 8, Page 92.
What is page 111 of The Great Gatsby? ›On page 111 of the Great Gatsby, Nick, Daisy, and Tom are at one of Gatsby's parties. Daisy is speaking to Nick and mentions: “If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arrange it for you.
What are some quotes from the book The Great Gatsby about money? ›“Her voice is full of money,” [Gatsby] said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it.
What are 3 quotes from Jay Gatsby? ›“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.” “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him.” “Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
What does Daisy say in Chapter 1? ›“I'm p-paralyzed with happiness.” These are Daisy's first words in the book, spoken in Chapter 1 to Nick upon his arrival at the Buchanan residence. Preceded by what Nick describes as “an absurd, charming little laugh,” Daisy's affected but playful stutter suggests that she is a constant performer in social situations.
What are 2 quotes from The Great Gatsby? ›“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.” “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” “It takes two to make an accident.” “He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
What is the quote at the top of chapter? ›A short quotation at the beginning of a chapter or article is called an epigraph.
What is a popular quote from Chapter 2 of The Great Gatsby? ›'What I say is, why go on living with them if they can't stand them? If I was them I'd get a divorce and get married to each other right away. ' 'It's really his wife that's keeping them apart.
What chapter is page 170 in The Great Gatsby? ›
Chapter 9 Chapter 9, pp. 170–2 The Great Gatsby: A Level.
What hurt Gatsby in Chapter 1? ›Nick views Gatsby as a victim, a man who fell prey to the "foul dust" that corrupted his dreams. Nick introduces Gatsby and connects him to both new money and the American Dream, and indicates that Gatsby was done in by the "foul dust" of the Roaring Twenties.
How does Chapter 1 end in Gatsby? ›At the end of the chapter, Nick sees Gatsby for the first time. He notices that he seems to want to be alone and is reaching out for something. Nick notices that Gatsby seems to be trembling.
How did Gatsby get rich quotes? ›We are told that Gatsby came up from essentially nothing, and that the first time he met Daisy Buchanan, he was “a penniless young man.” His fortune, we are told, was the result of a bootlegging business – he “bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago” and sold illegal alcohol over the counter.
What is the quote of Gatsby saying how he got his money? ›ii)He is involved in dodgy dealings as this is how he has made his money “I found out what your drugstores were… sold grain alcohol over the counter… I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him.” Tom reveals who Gatsby really is and destroys his relationship with daisy and his whole world.
Did Daisy marry Tom for money? ›' Jordan recounts to Nick the story of Daisy's wedding day, when Daisy got drunk and told Jordan that she did not want to marry Tom. Her decision to return the pearls ends up being purely symbolic, however, because she finally does wed Tom for his wealth and high social standing.
What are 3 direct quotes from Nick Carraway? ›- “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” ...
- “So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.” ...
- “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
The Last Line of The Great Gatsby. The last sentence of this novel is consistently ranked in the lists of best last lines that magazines like to put together. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. So what makes this sentence so great?
What are 3 direct quotes from Daisy in The Great Gatsby? ›- Daisy Buchanan : I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
- Daisy Buchanan : All the bright precious things fade so fast... and they don't come back.
- Daisy Buchanan : [after a long pause] Well, I'm certainly glad to see you again.
Daisy's finger has been hurt by her physically powerful husband Tom, although she says it was an accident. The novel contains several other accidents, and numerous allusions to the role of accidental occurrences in human life.
Why does Daisy cry in Chapter 1? ›
Upon seeing the shirts, Daisy cries and explains, “It makes me sad because I've never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.” One reason for Daisy's reaction could be that she only cares about material goods, and so something like fine clothing can make her feel affection for Gatsby.
What chapter does Daisy cry? ›Daisy cries because she has never seen such beautiful shirts, and their appearance makes her emotional. The scene solidifies her character and her treatment of Gatsby. She is vain and self-serving, only concerned with material goods.
Was Daisy driving quote page number? ›“Well, I tried to swing the wheel,” he broke off, and suddenly guessed at the truth. “Was Daisy driving?” “Yes,” he said after a moment, “But of course I'll say I was” (Gatsby 151).
What quotes from Jay Gatsby about Daisy? ›“Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes.”
Did Gatsby love Daisy quotes? ›And Gatsby describes his love for Daisy himself in this quote: “And what's more, 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, and in my heart I love her all the time.”
What is a quote from the outsider chapter 1? ›“Hey, grease,” one said in an over-friendly voice. “We're gonna do you a favor, greaser. We're gonna cut all that long greasy hair off.”
What is a powerful quote from Night chapter 1? ›Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes. Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
What is a quote from chapter 1 of It Ends With Us? ›Chapter 1 Quotes
“I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we're all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding than others.” […] “I don't think it's being a little guarded is a negative thing,” I say. “Naked truths aren't always pretty.”
'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. '
What is an important quote from Chapter 1 2 of The Great Gatsby? ›"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." "Don't look at me, I've been trying to get you to New York all afternoon."
What are 2 quotes from Chapter 8 The Great Gatsby? ›
Just before I reached the hedge I remembered something . . . 'They're a rotten crowd,' I shouted . . . 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together. ' I've always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end.
What chapter is page 88 in The Great Gatsby? ›Chapter 5 Chapter 5, pp. 88–9 The Great Gatsby: A Level.
Did Daisy kiss Gatsby in chapter 7? ›On the hottest day of the summer, Daisy invites Nick and Gatsby to lunch with her, Tom, and Jordan. At one point, while Tom is out of the room, Daisy kisses Gatsby on the lips and says she loves him.
Who arrives 3 days after Gatsby's death? ›Henry C. Gatz, Gatsby's father, comes to the mansion three days after his son's death, aged and wearing plain clothes. He's grief-stricken and asks Nick what his relationship was with Gatsby. Nick says they were close friends.
What was Gatsby killed with? ›George Wilson killed Gatsby with a gun in Gatsby's house and then shot himself dead. Wilson was devastated by his wife's death, who died in a car accident.
Was Nick sad when Gatsby died? ›Nick is shocked to find that Gatsby's closest friend will not even attend his funeral. At Gatsby's funeral, Nick finally comes to turns that Gatsby had no true friends. All of Gatsby's friends just used him for his money. This makes Nick upset because he always tried to support Gatsby.
What does Gatsby lie about in Chapter 1? ›Tom lies about having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, Gatsby lies about how he became the man that he is, and all three of them lie about who really killed Myrtle Wilson.
What chapter is Gatsby's death? ›Both his downfall in Chapter 7 and his death in Chapter 8 result from his stark refusal to accept what he cannot control: the passage of time. Read more about geography and weather as motifs. Gatsby has made Daisy a symbol of everything he values, and made the green light on her dock a symbol of his destiny with her.
What does Chapter 1 reveal about Nick? ›The first pages of Chapter 1 establish certain contradictions in Nick's point of view. Although he describes himself as tolerant and nonjudgmental, he also views himself as morally privileged, having a better sense of “decencies” than most other people.
Is Nick Carraway honest in Chapter 1? ›He is not honest. He knows that Gatsby isn't who he says he is. And yet he doesn't tell a single person. Nick lies by omission.
What is Gatsby's real name? ›
What is Gatsby's real history? Where is he from, and what is his name? His real name is James Gatz, and he's from North Dakota. His parents were poor farmers.
Is Gatsby richer than Tom? ›Is Gatsby Richer than Tom? While both characters are rich, it is implied in the novel that Tom has more money. However, at that time, what most people cared about was how you would get your money. Gatsby is still involved in organized crime secretly- meaning that he is technically working to keep his status.
Did Gatsby get rich for Daisy? ›Though Gatsby has always wanted to be rich, his main motivation in acquiring his fortune was his love for Daisy Buchanan, whom he met as a young military officer in Louisville before leaving to fight in World War I in 1917.
Can money buy happiness Great Gatsby quotes? ›Underneath all the sparkle, glitz and glamour, lies a lost and lonely man who uses his wealth to chase his dreams of finding fulfillment and love. But as the age-old saying goes, money can't buy you happiness, and that's what this book is all about.
What is the quote about Gatsby being penniless? ›"However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders" (149).
Does Daisy divorce Tom? ›By the end of the novel, after Daisy's murder of Myrtle as well as Gatsby's death, she and Tom are firmly back together, "conspiring" and "careless" once again, despite the deaths of their lovers.
Did Daisy ever claim not to love Tom? ›When Gatsby asks Daisy to say that she never loved her husband, Tom, Gatsby says, “You never loved him” (Fitzgerald 103). She hesitates and looks at Jordan and Nick. They can read her eyes but Daisy responds, “I never loved him” (Fitzgerald 103). Daisy says she never loved Tom without him present.
Why didn't Daisy attend Gatsby's funeral? ›Daisy does not want to be seen attending Gatsby's funeral because she does care about her reputation, despite the fact that she has never loved Tom. As a result, she makes the decision to abstain out of concern that she will damage both her connection with Tom and her standing in the eyes of the general public.
What memorable quote does Nick Carraway say in Chapter 1? ›Chapter 1, Nick Carraway repeats what his father snobbishly suggested to him. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.
What does Tom say in Chapter 1 Great Gatsby? ›“Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved.” In Chapter 1, Tom tells Nick and Daisy about a book he recently read.
What is the most important quote in The Great Gatsby? ›
"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. This is probably Gatsby's single most famous quote.
What is a key quotation from Jordan in Chapter 1 of The Great Gatsby? ›Her gray sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face. It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a picture of her, somewhere before. The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1, Nick eyes Jordan Baker, a professional golfer of some fame.
What are 3 quotes from Nick Carraway? ›“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” “I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” “Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.” “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
What does Nick see in Chapter 1? ›As Nick leaves, Tom and Daisy hint that they would like for him to take a romantic interest in Jordan. When Nick arrives home, he sees Gatsby for the first time, a handsome young man standing on the lawn with his arms reaching out toward the dark water.
What is a key quote for Nick Carraway? ›“You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.” Nick addresses these words to Gatsby the last time he sees his neighbor alive, in Chapter 8.
How is Tom's attitude in Chapter 1? ›Answer: In the first chapter of The Great Gatsby, Nick describes Tom Buchanan as appearing arrogant, supercillious, aggressive, strong, and capable of cruelty.
How is Tom arrogant in Chapter 1? ›Tom has “arrogant eyes” and an aggressively leaning stance. Nick knows the man from his early years and contrasts Tom's images from the present and past. Tom, as Nick sees him now, is a sturdy, straw-haired man with a hard mouth. The figure asserts dominance over others, exudes a sense of power.
What is a nice quote from The Great Gatsby? ›- “I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” ...
- “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” ...
- “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.”
How does Chapter 1 end in The Great Gatsby? ›When Nick next glances over, Gatsby is gone, and the chapter ends.
What was Jordan Baker's memorable quote? ›
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
Is Nick Carraway kind in Chapter 1? ›As he tells the reader in Chapter 1, he is tolerant, open-minded, quiet, and a good listener, and, as a result, others tend to talk to him and tell him their secrets. Gatsby, in particular, comes to trust him and treat him as a confidant.