Money and status

Quote

Character

Chapter

“Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square”

Nick

1

“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”

Nick

2

“I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married.”

Myrtle

2

“East egg condescending to west egg and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gaiety”

Nick

3

“Enthusiastic greetings between women who never knew each other’s names”

Nick

3

“On Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing – brushes and hammers and garden-shears repairing the ravages of the night before.”

Nick

3

“He hadn’t once ceased looking at daisy and I think he revalued everything in the value according to the measure of response it drew from her.”

Nick

5

“The pearls were around her neck and the incident was over”

Jordan

4

“Daisy admired... the feudal silhouette against the sky, admired the gardens, the sparkling odour of jonquils”

Nick

5

“He opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing gowns and ties... he took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them”

Nick

5

“Drawing further and further into herself”

Nick

7

“However glorious his future might be as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders.”

Nick

8

“Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor”

Nick

8

“Retreat back into their money or their vast carelessness... and let other people clean up the mess they had made”

Nick

8

“She vanished into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby – nothing”

Nick

8

“Daisy’s house had always seemed to him more mysterious and gay than the others”

Nick

8

“Myrtle Wilson’s