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An excellent resource of quotations to aid in writing literature essays on The Great Gatsby I achieved 28/30 for my literature essay written in grade 11 using these quotes.

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THE GREAT GATSBY QUOTES
The class system in society

• “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and
creatures and then retreated back into their money or vast carelessness... let other people
clean up the mess they had made”
• “Her voice is full of money”
• “They were conspiring together”
• “Gatsby has broken up like glass against Tom’s hard malice”
• “Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant ,
cheerful snobbery”
• “They’re a rotten crowd- you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”
• “A quality of distortion”

Immorality of New York

• “Anything can happen now that we’ve slid over this bridge”

Gatsby’s Dream

• “Colossal vitality of his illusion”
• “You can’t repeat the past”
• “I love you now- isn’t that enough?”
• “I can’t help what’s past”
• “The dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away”
• “Following of a grail” - daisy is the grail
• “Incorruptible dream”
• “Huge incoherent failure of a house”
• “Last and greatest of all human dreams”
• “Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further..”
• “The rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing”
• “The unreality of reality”
• “Daisy tumbled short of his dreams”

Tom’s character

• “Supercilious” “arrogant eyes” “leaning aggressively forward” “paternal
contempt” “fractiousness” (unsettled)
• “He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive” - on Wilson

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