Love, relationships, and self-interest

Quote

Character

Chapter

“And I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”

Daisy

1

“It seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was to rush out of the house child in arms – but apparently she had no such intentions in her head”

Nick

1

“Neither of them can stand the person they’re married to”

Catherine

2

“Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once”

Party attendee

3

“His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago, secure and involitile, were slipping precipitately from his control.”

Nick

7

There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together. “

Nick

7

“’I never loved him,’ she said, with perceptible reluctance.”

Daisy/ Nick

7

“She wanted her life shaped now, immediately – and the decision must be made by some force – of love of money of unquestionable practicality – that was close at hand”

Nick

8

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

Nick

9