Thematic Quotation List perfect for A-Level Revision for Aspects of Tragedy paper. Themes are: The Daisy Dream, Intangibility, Gatsby as Icarus, Gatsby's Car, Gatsby's House, Gatsby's Death, Daisy's Voice, Daisy and Artifice of the Jazz Age, Nick's Judgement, Tom's reaction to Myrtle, Summer, Chapt...
The Daisy Dream
‘There must have been moments where she fell short of his dreams, not through
fault of her own but through the colossal vitality of his illusion. That went beyond
her, beyond everything.’
‘He spoke as if her reaction was the only thing that mattered.’
‘Watching over nothing.’
Intangibility
‘as if only to snatch a whisp of air’
‘the vanishing city where she once drew breath.’
‘watching over nothing’
Gatsby as Icarus
‘it seemed pretty soon that the earth was going to fall into the sun’
‘the earth lurched away from the sun’
‘the orchestra played yellow cocktail music’
‘the track curved away from the sun’
Overreaching
‘your wife doesn’t love you. She’s never loved you. She loves me.’
Gatsby’s Car
‘swollen here and there in its monstrous length.’
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