Page 115 “Her voice is full of money”

her voice is unique. it’s pretty much priceless because it’s so amazing. there’s also a quote saying that her voice is like all these melodies that’s never been played before or something like that.

Page 22 “I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated!” — Daisy

it pretty much tells that Daisy is really conceited.

Page 113 “What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? Cried Daisy, and the day after that, and the next thirty years?”

the problem is, Tom & Daisy have a weird relationship. they don’t love each other. Tom is with her because of her looks and Daisy is with him because of his money. This quote shows that they really don’t have anything in common — like married couples..

There is one quote that I think nails it. Nick is telling Gatsby that you can’t go back and reclaim the past. He has been hearing about Gatsby and Daisy falling in love many years before, when they were very young and she was not married. When Nick tells him that he can’t go back, Gatsby says “Of course you can.” I don’t remember it exactly, but you can find it in the book. It shows that Gatsby has assumed something to be true that is not, and that everything he has done, everything he has accomplished has been for the purpose of doing something that it is impossible to do. While Gatsby appears to have accomplishesd the impossible by coming from nothing and making such a fortune, none of it matters, because the whole reason for it is based on a false understanding of the universe. The “Old sport” quote is great. Somebody already mentioned it. It uses a phrase that was used by young, wealthy society men in a time that was already past, and it was a British phrase that sounded affected in an American of the wrong era. Againl, Gatsby is reaching back for a time and place that are gone, if they ever existed at all.