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Summary AQA English Literature B A-Level - The Great Gatsby (Character Quotes)

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A collection of all necessary character quotes to revise The Great Gatsby for the Tragedy paper in the AQA English Literature B A-Level. I achieved an A* in this subject.

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The Great Gatsby - Character

CHARACTER QUOTE ANALYSIS

Nick Carraway ‘I am inclined to reserve all judgement’ Fairness, justice (irony)

‘You can’t repeat the past’ Irony - disposable relationships

‘Reserving all judgements is a matter of Hipocrisy, contradicting himself, questioning
infinite hope’ his honesty - unreliable narrator

‘Haunting loneliness’ Foreboding the fake relationships, lack of care

‘I’d had enough of all of them’ Disposable life, comment on cunsumerism

Jay Gatsby ‘Florid and corpulent’ [Nick] Excessively elaborate, greed

‘Mr Nobody from nowhere’ [Tom] Illusive nature - has no origin

‘A quality of eternal reassurance’ [Nick] Honesty, compassion - realism

‘Elaborate formality of speech’ [Nick] Hyperbolic nature, an outsider

‘Drawn unusually tight’ [Nick] Letting down his facase - realism

‘Worth the whole bunch put Value and worth re-evaluated, the realisation
together’ [Nick] of what society means

‘Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you Fantasy world, lack of understanding
can!’

‘You’re acting like a little boy’ [Nick] Losing himself, no more hiding

Daisy Buchanan ‘I’ve been everywhere and seen Excessive and elaborate nature, reflecting her
everything’ wealth, naive and oblivious

‘Sad and lovely’ [Nick] Juxtaposition, ethereal, impossible

‘Her voice is full of money’ [Gatsby] Confusing her wealth with her being

‘Fluctuating, feverish warmth’ [Nick] Ever-changing, illusive

‘A beautiful little fool’ Wanting to be oblivious to reality

‘You remind me of a-of a rose’ Broken speech (her broken life)

Tom Buchanan ‘Alert, Aggressive’ [Nick] Animalistic violence, dehumanising

‘Hard mouth and supercilious Arrogant and overbearing, controlling
manner’ [Nick] everything

‘Tom Buchanan broke her nose’ [Nick] Abrupt and blunt, reflecting his violence

‘A cruel body’ [Nick] Made to be violent and inflict pain

‘Enormous power’ [Nick] Foreboding his violence

‘A simple mind’ [Nick] Lacking complexity, reflection on society

Myrtle Wilson ‘Continually smouldering’ [Nick] Sexual and flirtateous, her sole purpose

‘Inderterminate breed’ [Nick] Poverty, not special, confusion

‘Immediately perceptable vitality’ [Nick] Strength (irony of later events)

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