The Great Gatsby Quotes - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Hint Answer % Correct
The past ‘Cant repeat the past? [...] Why of course you can!'
50%
Daisy's voice ‘Her voice is full of money’'
50%
Eyes ‘The giant eyes of Dr T.J Eckleberg’
25%
Buchanan's house ‘A bright rosy-coloured space […] the frosted wedding-cake of the the ceiling’
0%
Gatsby's house ‘A colossal affair […] it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy’
0%
West and East egg 'a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque
0%
End of Plaza Hotel ‘And the holocaust was complete.’
0%
Membership ‘As if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged’
0%
Valley of Ashes ‘Desolate […] this is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat.'
0%
Enchanted ‘His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.’
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The Buchanan's intro ‘Drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together’
0%
Final green light 'Gatsby believed in the green light the orgastic future that year by year recedes'
0%
T.J Eckleburg ‘‘God sees everything’ repeated wilson’
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Gatsby's 'marriage' ‘He felt married to her that was all’
0%
Grail ‘He had committed himself to the following of a grail'
0%
Perishable breath ‘He knew that when he kissed the girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God’
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Gatsby reaching out ‘He stretched out his arms towards the dark water […] trembling’
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Library ‘If one book was removed the whole library was liable to collapse'
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Spree ‘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’
0%
Nick believeing Gatsby 'I had reached the point of believing everything and nothing about him.'
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Fool ‘I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’
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Mytrle's view on Wilson ‘I married him because I thought he was a gentleman […] he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.’
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Revalued ‘I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.’
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Jordan 'It takes two to make an accident [...] I hate careless people. That's why I like you.'
0%
The letter vs the pearls ‘It was coming to pieces like snow [...] the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over.'
0%
Smile ‘It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in a life.'
0%
Romantic Manhattan ‘I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life’
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Nose ‘Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.’
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People at the party ‘Men and girls came and went like moths among the whispering and champagne and the stars.'
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Myrtle's death ‘Mingled her thick dark blood with the dust [...] her left breast was swinging loose like a flap’
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Honeymoon ‘Not that day I carried you down from the Punch Bowl to keep your shoes dry.’
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Gatsby pre Daisy ‘Pale as death with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets.’
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Mytrle intro ‘Sensuously […] smouldering […] walking through her husband as if he were a ghost’
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Flower ‘She blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete’
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Daisy on West Egg ‘She was appalled by West Egg [...] she saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.’
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Mr Nobody ‘Sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love with your wife.'
0%
Gatsby rumours 'Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once'
0%
Final line 'So we beat on, boats against the current borne back ceaselessly into the past'
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Clock ‘The clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers.’
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rotten ‘They’re a rotten crowd [...] you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.’
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End of Daisy and Tom 'they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness'
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Flashback w/ Gatsby ‘They were so engrossed in each other that she didn’t see me until I was five feet away.’
0%
Colossal vitality ‘Tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.
0%
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