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The Great Gatsby
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16
English
10th Grade
10/21/2013

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3 quotes on Daisy Buchanan's voice yo
Definition

"...low, thrilling voice"

"a promising complusion... a promise that she had done gay and exciting things just a while before and that gay and exciting things were hovering in the next hour." 

"Her voice was full of money... That was it. I'd never understood it before... The inexhaustable charm that rose and fell in it"

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3 quotes to show Daisy's materialistic nature
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"You never told me you had a pompadour - or a yacht. "

"They're just such beautiful shirts!...It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before."
"He gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars." 

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2 quotes to show Daisy's carelessness
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"Daisy hadn't sent a message or anything"

 

"They're careless people Tom and Dasiy - They smashed up things and creatures and retreated back to their money or their vast carelessness, what ever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

 


 

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5 quotes showing Gatsby's relation to blue
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"In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champange and the stars." 

"A chauffeur in a uniform of robins-egg blue..."

"He had come a long way to this blue lawn"
(Shirts) " Indian blue"

(After Gatsby's death)"So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air"  

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5 quotes relating to gold. Explain.
Definition

At GG's party "...turkeys bewitched to gold" 

Jordan Bakers "...slender gold arms..."

Showing the immense presence of wealth in all aspects the upper class life.

"...white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold tie..."

Gatsby's choice of a gold tie represents the way in which he hoped to woo Daisy with his wealth

Daisy "the golden girl" shows Daisy's materialism and her value as a status symbol

 

 

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3 quotes showing Tom's violence.
Definition

"Look! I hurt it...You did it Tom...That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great big, hulking physical specimen of a-" 

"Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose." 

"His determination to have my company bordered on violence" Shows that Tom feels the need to control those around through force.

 

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5 quotes relating to illusion a. Explain?
Definition

"Absolutely real - have pages and everything. I though they'd be a nice durable cardboard...It's a bona-fide piece of printed matter... What thoroughness! What realism...Didn't cut the pages." Owl-eyes representing a higher power similar to TJ Eckleburg, it shows the extent to which Gatsby went to uphold his image of being a well educated and well read man. 

"I want to wait here until Daisy goes to bed... So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing." The use of the word nothing represents the fact that Daisy and Gatsby's future was in fact an illusion of Gatsby's hope and was short-lived.

"I don't think she ever loved him...  Of course she might have loved him just for a minute - when they were first married - but loved me more, even then, do you see?" Shows that Gatsby truely believed that Daisy was in love with him since they met when in actual fact this was not the case.

"He stretched his arms out towards the dark water in a curious way... I distinguished nothing but a green light, minute and faraway..."

Shows that Gatsby was trying to get as close to Daisy as possible but was separated by the water, yet he was determined to acquire her.

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that receded year by year from us." Shows that Gatsby believed in a dying dream, an illusion of hope that was represented by the green light. 

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3 quotes showing Tom's physical attributes.
Definition

"Two shinning arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face...gave him an appearance of always leaning aggressively forwards." 

"It was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body" 

"Tom Buchanan standing with his legs apart on the front porch" - dominance

 

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3 aspects of Tom Buchanan's personality? 2 quotes each
Definition

Need to control:
"Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died about the room"

"It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things."
"She's not leaving me." 

Restless:
"Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulance of some irrecoverable football game."

"Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart."

"Tom's got some woman in New York." Shows that Tom is not content with Daisy, but is constantly looking for more - restless.

Arrogant:
"Just because I'm stronger and more of a man than you are."

"He's too dumb to know he's alive."

"I've got a nice play here," he said, his eyes flashing about restlessly."

 

 

 

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3 quotes relating Tom to the role of alcohol in society
Definition

"Meanwhile Tom bought out a bottle of whisky from a locked bureau door." Shows Tom's dependancy through his habbit of producing alcohol at any circumstances.
"His hand, trembling with his effort at self-control, bore to his lips a glass of ale."
Shows that Tom needs it in order to feel in control.

"I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far off" Says Tom as he drinks bootlegged alcohol lol hypocrite 

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6 quotes relating to the development of Daisy's voice"
Definition

"Low, thrilling voice."

"Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her" 
"...promise he had done gay exciting things just a while since and that there were gay and exciting things hovering in the next hour."

 "It was full of money - that was the inexhaustable charm that rose and fell in it."

"Her voice struggled on through the heat, beating against it, moulding its senselessness into forms."

"She admitted in a pittiful voice."

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5 quotes relating to Daisy's representation of the American dream."
Definition

"Promise that she had done gay and exciting things just a while since and that gay and exciting things were hovering in the next hour." Like American dream promised gay and exciting things 

"I did love him once - but I loved you too"

Daisy becomes tarnish through her misleading of people, "her murmur was only to make people lean into her." Draws people in.
"The orgiastic future that year by year recedes from us." The green light, representing Daisy.
 

 

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5 quotes relating to the upper and lower class divisions. (INCOMPLETE)
Definition

Myrtle: "I told that boy about the ice!" Myrtle raised her eyebrows at the shiftlessness of the lower order, "These people! You have to keep after them all the time." Shows that she believes that acting snobish will make her sound fancy, yet it makes her sound vulgar. 

"On Monday, eight servants, including an extra gardner, toiled all day... repairing the ravages of the night before."

 

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4 quotes showing Daisy's gender role
Definition

"...I drove over to have dinner at the Tom Buchanans."

Not "The Buchanans", shows that Daisy is insignificant to Tom and he dominates the relationship.

"Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room...the two young woman ballooned slowly to the floor."
Foreshadowing the way in which Tom metaphorically deflates the women in the following scenes.

"I hope she'll be a fool-thats the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." 

Shows that Daisy believes the only reprive from society is to be dumb enough not to realise.

"Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again... tthe decision must be mde by some force of love or money, of unquestionable practicality."
Shows that Fitzgerald believed that women are fudamentally incapable of making decisions and that a man is needed to anchor a woman.  

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4 quotes showing Myrtles contribution to gender role in the novel. (INCOMPLETE)
Definition
"Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!...I'll say it whenever I want to!...Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose."
Woman have words, but men have fists. This shows that men had the dominant position in society.
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5 quotes showing technology INCOMPLETE
Definition

Telephone:

"fifth guests shrill metallic urgency..."

Cars:
 

 

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