| Which demonstrates the sudden dramatic decline of Gatsby within society? | “…an endless drill of police and photographers and newspaper men…” |
| Which quote ironically demonstrates the nature of Gatsby’s upper class existence? | “…grotesque, circumstantial, eager and untrue.” |
| Which quote demonstrates Wilson’s lack of purpose? | “…Wilson was reduced to a man ‘deranged by grief’…” |
| Which quote demonstrates the lack of emotion and moral substance of higher society? | “…no one arrived except more police and photographers and newspaper men.” |
| Which quote acts as an allegory for Gatsby’s life? | “There was a long silence on the other end of the wire, followed by an exclamation… then a quick squawk as the connection was broken.” |
| Which quote encapsulates the American Dream of economic success? | “He’d [Gatsby would] of helped build up the country.” |
| Which quote demonstrates the need of material wealth for meaningful existence? | “…they rather expect me to be with them tomorrow. In fact, there’s a sort of picnic or something.” |
| Which quote again demonstrates racial prejudice? | “…a lovely Jewess appeared at an interior door and scrutinized me with black hostile eyes.” |
| Which quote demonstrates Gatsby’s corruption due to material wealth/ achieving his ambitions? | “Start him! I [Wolfsheim] made him!” |
| Which quote demonstrates the cyclical nature of ambition and decline? | “And last the murky yellow cars of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railroad…” |
| Which quote demonstrates Nick’s own attachment to material wealth? | “…not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth…” |
| How does Nick acknowledge the corruption of high society, including himself? | “…perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to eastern life.” |
| Which quote demonstrates the lack of substance of Long Island society? | “…a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, couching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustre-less moon.” |
| Which quote reinforces aninimity of death and the ineffectual nature of status upon it? | “But no one knows the woman’s name, and no one cares.” |
| Which quote demonstrates the corruption of East Egg? | “…the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes’ power of correction.” |
| Which quote demonstrates a final separation between Jordan and Nick? | “…her chin raised a little jauntily, her hair the color of an autumn leaf…” |
| How does Jordan acknowledge Nick’s hypocrisy and corruption. | “I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person.” |
| Which quote finally links Gatsby to the Valley of Ashes? | “He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy’s…” |
| Which quote demonstrates the ‘leveling’ nature of death? | “…the grass on his lawn had grown as long as mine.” |
| Which quote connects to Chapter 3 and connects the notion of decadence to upper class survival? | “some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn’t know that the party was over.” |
| Which quote links to intrinsic ambition? | “…the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes…” |
| Which quote demonstrates the passivity of Gatsby’s dreams? | “…the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.” |
| Which quote demonstrates Gatsby’s denial about the reality of his dreams, and how this is intrinsic in all? | “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” |
GATSBY- Chapter 9 KEY QUOTES
March 30, 2020