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Answer
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Gatsby's house
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‘A colossal affair […] it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy’
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The Buchanan's intro
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‘Drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together’
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Buchanan's house
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‘A bright rosy-coloured space […] the frosted wedding-cake of the the ceiling’
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Fool
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‘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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Membership
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‘As if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged’
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Gatsby reaching out
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‘He stretched out his arms towards the dark water […] trembling’
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Valley of Ashes
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‘Desolate […] this is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat.'
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Eyes
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‘The giant eyes of Dr T.J Eckleberg’
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Mytrle intro
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‘Sensuously […] smouldering […] walking through her husband as if he were a ghost’
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Mytrle's view on Wilson
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‘I married him because I thought he was a gentleman […] he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.’
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Romantic Manhattan
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‘I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life’
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Nose
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‘Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.’
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People at the party
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‘Men and girls came and went like moths among the whispering and champagne and the stars.'
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Gatsby rumours
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'Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once'
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Library
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‘If one book was removed the whole library was liable to collapse'
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Smile
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‘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.'
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Jordan
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'It takes two to make an accident [...] I hate careless people. That's why I like you.'
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Flashback w/ Gatsby
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‘They were so engrossed in each other that she didn’t see me until I was five feet away.’
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The letter vs the pearls
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‘It was coming to pieces like snow [...] the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over.'
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Gatsby pre Daisy
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‘Pale as death with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets.’
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Clock
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‘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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Revalued
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‘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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Enchanted
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‘His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.’
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Colossal vitality
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‘Tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.
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Nick believeing Gatsby
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'I had reached the point of believing everything and nothing about him.'
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Daisy on West Egg
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‘She was appalled by West Egg [...] she saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.’
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The past
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‘Cant repeat the past? [...] Why of course you can!'
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Perishable breath
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‘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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Flower
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‘She blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete’
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Daisy's voice
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‘Her voice is full of money’'
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Mr Nobody
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‘Sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love with your wife.'
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Spree
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‘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’
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Honeymoon
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‘Not that day I carried you down from the Punch Bowl to keep your shoes dry.’
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Myrtle's death
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‘Mingled her thick dark blood with the dust [...] her left breast was swinging loose like a flap’
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Grail
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‘He had committed himself to the following of a grail'
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Gatsby's 'marriage'
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‘He felt married to her that was all’
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rotten
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‘They’re a rotten crowd [...] you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.’
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T.J Eckleburg
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‘‘God sees everything’ repeated wilson’
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End of Plaza Hotel
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‘And the holocaust was complete.’
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Final green light
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'Gatsby believed in the green light the orgastic future that year by year recedes'
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Final line
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'So we beat on, boats against the current borne back ceaselessly into the past'
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West and East egg
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'a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque
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End of Daisy and Tom
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'they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness'
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