Morality and justice

Quote

Character

Chapter

“It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated on the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and shortwinded elations of men”

Nick

1

“I wanted the world to be in some sort of uniform moral of attention forever.”

Nick

1

“’These people! You have to keep after them all the time.’ She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she... swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.”

Myrtle/ Nick

2

“They conducted themselves according to the rules of behaviour associated with an amusement park.

Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all”

Nick

3

“I was able to do the commissioner a favour once and he sends me a Christmas card every year.”

Gatsby

4

Meyer Wolfsheim “began to eat with ferocious delicacy”

Nick

4

“Play with the faith of fifty million people – with the single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.”

Nick

4

“He broke off and began to walk down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favours and crushed flowers.”

Nick

7

“The well-disciplined child held her nurse’s hand and was pulled out the door”

Nick

7

“They’re a rotten crowd... You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”

Nick

8

“You can’t fool god!”

George

8

“A rope stretched across the main gate and a policeman by it kept out the curious, but little boys soon discovered that they could enter through my yard, and there were always a few of them clustered open-mouthed about the pool.”

Nick

9

“I found myself on Gatsby’s side and alone”

Nick

9

“After Gatsby’s death, the east was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes power of correction”

Nick

9