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The Great Gatsby Thematic Quotes
This is a lot of thematically organised quotes, motifs and critic quotes in the play, key for essay writing. These helped me achieve A*s in my essays
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FitzgeraldThe Great
Gatsby
Notes
, Money, Materialism, Wealth, Flashiness, Alcohol
Quotes
● “Here’s your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it.”- Tom
● “Pyramid of pulpless halves” - Nick about the parties
● “Little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler’s thumb”
● “Enough coloured lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden”
● “East Egg condescending to West Egg...on guard against its spectroscopic gaiety.”
● “I’ve been drunk for a week now.”
● “Served in glasses bigger than finger bowls”
● “Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their
husbands...an angry diamond…”
● “The world and its mistress returned to Gatsby’s house”
● “I’d seen it. Everyone had seen it.” Nick about Gatsby’s car
● “A string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.”
● “Your place looks like the World’s Fair.””
● “White flannel suit, silver shirt and gold-coloured tie.”
● “His bedroom was the simplest room of all...with a toilet set of dull gold.”
● “He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them.”
● ““They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed.”
● “Gatsby indicated a gorgeous, scarcely human orchid of a woman.”
● “This circus wagon.”- Tom about Gatsby’s car
Critics
● Stephanie Forward, talks about how the novel coveys “horror and disillusionment about
the shallow hypocrisy of a society dominated by material excess and hollow
relationships.”
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