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And one fine morning——. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. (9.153-154) One of the most famous ending lines in modern literature, this quote is Nick's final analysis of Gatsby—someone who believed in "the green light, the orgastic future" that he could never really attain.
- Chapter 1: "A beautiful little fool" I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. Daisy speaks these words in Chapter 1 as she describes to Nick and Jordan her hopes for her infant daughter.
- Chapter 3: Gatsby's smile. He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
- Chapter 6: How Gatsby Created Himself. The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.
- Chapter 9: A Story of the West. That’s my Middle West . . . the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark. . . . I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
It was testimony to the romantic speculation [Gatsby] inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world. This quote appears in Chapter 3, during Gatsby’s party. At this point in the book, Nick has yet to meet Gatsby face to face, and rumors are circulating about ...
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Recommended quote pages. View All Quotes. #2: “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” #3: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and . . . then retreated back into their money . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”.
Quote #1. “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”. Chapter -1. Daisy speaks these lines in Chapter-1 and expresses her fears for her daughter. Daisy’s remarks are ironic in nature because she refers to the social values of that era. She describes her own boredom of life ...
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The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1. People trust Nick Carraway and confide their secrets in him because he doesn’t rush to judge them. The Great Gatsby. Chapter 1, Narrator Nick Carraway says that he does not judge people especially when he first meets them. A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
