The Great Gatsby Quotes by Themes
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- Great Gatsby Quotes by Theme
- The American Dream
- "It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams" CH1
- "he was a blond, spiritless man" CH2
- "I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared...."
- "I've been here too long. I want to get away. My wife and I want to go west."
- "His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one"
- Family
- "My grandfather's brother ... sent a substitute to the Civil War" CH1
- "Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions"
- "My family all died and I came into a good deal of money."
- "He had a big future before him, you know."
- Love and Relationships
- "Neither of them can stand the person they're married to" CH2
- "'You were crazy about him for a while.'" CH2
- "'I married him because I thought he was a gentleman" CH2
- "I was never any more crazy about him than I was about that man there" CH2
- "Most of the women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands" CH3
- "both wives were lifted, kicking into the night" CH3
- "I thought I'd never seen a girl so mad about her husband" CH4
- "Your wife doesn't love you. She's never loved you. She loves me."
- "Yes... but of course I'll say I was"
- "He was clutching at some last hope and I couldn't bear to shake him free."
- Wealth/Money
- Social Class
- "fundamental decencies ... parcelled out unequally at birth" CH1
- "valley of ashes" CH2
- "ash-grey men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air" CH2
- "Wreck! That's good. Wilson'll have a little business at last."
- "Finest specimens of human molars..."
- "all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had" CH1
- "my grandfather's brother ... sent a substitute to the Civil War" CH1
- "It was sharply different from the West" CH1
- "It's a libel. I'm too poor." CH1
- "Her voice is full of money"
- "I decided to go east and learn the bond business."
- "You know, old sport, I've never used that pool all summer"
- "they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness"
- "My dear, most of these fellas will cheat you every time. All they think of is money."
- "My family all died and I came into a good deal of money."
- Social Class
- Gender
- "a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner" CH1
- "both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering" CH1
- "like a young cadet" CH1
- "Sophisticated - God, I'm sophisticated!" CH1
- "an immediately perceptible vitality about her" CH2
- "'He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.'" CH2
- "Mr Mckee was a pale, feminine man" Ch1
- "Dishonesty in a women is a thing you never blame deeply" CH3
- "He was his wife's man and not his own"
- "And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool"
- Morality
- "I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever" CH1
- "'Got some woman?' I repeated blankly" CH1
- "my own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police" CH1
- "Eckleberg's persistant stare" CH2
- "I had no desire to meet her" CH2
- "criminal" CH3
- "I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known" CH3
- "No, he's a gambler" CH4
- "the World Series had been fixed in 1919" CH4
- '"Why isn't he in jail?" CH4
- "I'm really sorry, but I don't get involved with my friends' deaths."
- "I thought you were an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride"
- Prejudice
- "a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl" CH4
- "covered Gatsby with his expressive nose" Ch4
- "I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me"
- "They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole dam bunch put together
- "Civilization's going to pieces... If we don't look out the white race will be utterly submerged"
- "next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white."
- Lies and Deceit
- "Daisy was not a Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie." CH2
- "I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West" CH4
- "San Francisco"
- "lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe" CH4
- "then it was all true" CH4
- "I'm thirty. I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."
- "My family all died and I came into a good deal of money."
- "Yes... but of course I'll say I was"
- Dissatisfaction
- "Mrs Wilson rejected the compliment by raising her eyebrow in disdain" CH2
- Memory and The Past
- "I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War" CH1
- "Can't repeat the past?... Why of course you can!"
- Appearance vs Reality
- "the Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe" CH1
- "an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight" CH2
- Rumour
- "'they say he's a nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's." CH2
- "thought he killed a man once" CH3
- "A German spy during the war" Ch3
- "I'll bet he killed a man" CH3
- "I don't want you to get a wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear" CH4
- "This fella's a real Belasco!" CH3
- "Absolutely real - have pages and everything" Ch3
- "the apparition stood swaying for a moment" CH3
- "He was never quite still" CH4
- "my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence had gradually faded" CH4
- "Gatsby's very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friend's wife" CH4
- "I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody"
- "I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn't far wrong"
- "what realism!"
- Violence and Aggression
- "a cruel body" CH1
- "always leaning aggressively forward" CH1
- "the knuckle was black and blue" CH1
- "a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a-" CH1
- "Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand" CH2
- "Beat me! Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!"
- "they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness"
- The American Dream
- "I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler" CH1
- "He's just a man named Gatsby" CH3
- "The world and its mistress" CH4
- "But it wasn't any use. Nobody came"
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