The Great Gatsby Quotations

Figurative Language: Foreshadowing is used in this. When Jordan says this it foreshadows on the accident Of Daisy hitting Myrtle. 3) “Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs.. Wilson stood face to face in impassioned voices whether Mrs.. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy name. “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy! ” shouted Mrs.. Wilson. “I’ll say it whenever want to! Daisy! Dad-” Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand. Importance: The importance of this quote is showing how the richer class people think that being snobs makes them “fancy”.
It shows how the era this book was set in was a time much different hen ours. Symbolism: This shows how Tom is unworthy of Daisy and her love, no matter what his social status. It is also showing the darker side of the jazz era. Seeming Nick did not respond to Tom hitting myrtle this shows you his non-judgmental side to him. Figurative Language: Personification is used here when “Impassioned voices” is said, as well as “a short deft movement. ” 4) “l believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited-?they went there. Importance: The importance Of this quote is that it is showing how society used Gatsby, they didn’t know him or particularly like him, but they felt more then happy, and welcome to party at his house. Even though he would throw a party for all of New York the East egger wouldn’t accept him. This also shows the general corruption of the roaring ass’s. It also helps show that people wanted to escape from their empty lives. Symbolism: This quote helps show that for some reason Gatsby wanted to meet Nick, he wanted to make sure that Nick showed up. Which then helps you realize that Nick has a connection to someone or something that Gatsby wants.
Which would be Daisy. Figurative Language: Foreshadowing is used. Because the fact that Gatsby invited Nick, and no one else shows that he wants to see him badly for some reason. Which is then explained later on in the book. 5) “A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books. As we entered he wheeled excitedly around and examined Jordan from head to foot. “What do you think? ” he demanded impetuously. “About what? ” He waved his hand towards the bookshelves “About that.

As a matter of fact you needn’t bother to ascertain. I ascertained they re real. “The books? ” He nodded. “Absolutely read-they have pages and everything. I thought theft be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact they’re absolutely real. Pages and-Here! Lemma show you. ” Importance: This quote is important to the plays pot because it helps describe how real of a man Gatsby is compared to the rest of the people in society. It shows how Gatsby is genuine, and isn’t just an illusion like everybody else in society in the ass’s was. Symbolism: The constant bringing up of “owl eyes” in the book is symbolizing wisdom.
It symbolizes that Gatsby is a wise man. It also symbolizes for how Gatsby is blinded by assays beauty and for his love for her. Figurative Language: Owl eyes is used as a symbol in this quote, they come up often in the book. They symbolize for how Gatsby has a difficult time separating the ideal from the real. 6) “l hope she’ll be a fool-?that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool… You see, I think everything terrible anyhow… And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. Importance: Daisy says this to Nick and Jordan, talking about how she hopes her daughter will turn out.
Importance of this is that it shows that she lives in a time when Oman are not expected to be quite intelligent, she hopes that her daughter can be a “beautiful fool”. Woman in this era were expected to be docile. Importance to Character: This shows how she refers to the social values of her era, but does not challenge them. Instead Daisy describes her own boredom with life, and believes that a girl can have more fun in her time when she is beautiful and simplistic. Daisy conforms to the social standard of American femininity in the 1 dad’s to avoid tension issues as her undying love for Gatsby.
Figurative Language: This foreshadows on Tom having a mistress because Daisy is a fool. She has no idea that Tom has a mistress, so she herself is a “beautiful” fool. 7) ‘There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams-not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion… ” Importance: The importance of this quote is that it explains how Gatsby expected more out of Daisy then what she could give.
He expected her to be the same Daisy that he had fallen in love with before the war, and he expected her to love only Gatsby and not Gatsby and Tom. Symbolism: This shows that Gatsby is that Daisy is the golden girl. A symbolic validation that his love for her makes him a real man, while to Daisy, Gatsby is symbolic of freedom and escape, everything that Daisy wants 8) “She was appalled by West Egg… By its raw vigor that chafed… And by the too obtrusive fate that herded it’s inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing.
She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand” Importance: This quote shows how Daisy is a judgmental character and does not understand what it is like to not have much money to upend. Daisy doesn’t understand the amusement of new wealth partying crowd. Daisy grew up knowing that there must be a concrete difference between poor and rich. Daisy and Tom like the old traditional way of wealth, the status and reputation. They like the “classy’ way of life, so when there is woman there asking to daisy to have a cold shower, she is disgusted that a woman would let herself get that drunk.
Symbolism: This quote shows how Daisy loves Gatsby. Even though this party disgusted her and Tom, she still tries to defend Gatsby when Tom says something nasty about the party. She rises to explain that a lot of people who weren’t invited must have came, and those were the people that are acting not appropriately. 9) “You ought to go away:’ I said. “It’s pretty certain thefts trace your car” “Go away now, old sport? “Go to Atlantic city for a week, or up to Montreal” He wouldn’t consider it. He couldn’t possibly leave Daisy until he knew what she was going to do.
He was clutching at some last hope and couldn’t bear to shake him free. ” Importance: This quote shows that Gatsby is too hung up on Daisy that he can’t leave without her. He believes himself to be so in love with her that e can’t leave. Gatsby doesn’t know that his life is at risk because Mr.. Wilson is running around the countryside trying to find the owner of the yellow car. Symbolism: This quote shows how Gatsby lives Off Of hope. It shows how hope is the only thing that is keeping him from loneliness, and from just giving up. 0) minis is a valley of ashes-?a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations form your sight. Importance: The valley of ashes is a dividing point between West egg and East egg, It is a division between two totally different life styles, West egg is a place full of people who are happy and searching for what to be, while East egg is full of people who are wealthy and spend money on whatever they like, while in the middle, is the valley of ashes. A place that is burnt down, nothing but grey from ashes, where it is filthy and dusty, and people are just getting by. Symbolism: The Valley of Ashes symbolizes for a place of death, of something dark.
It symbolizes that dreams are left there, and that there is no hope there. The Valley of Ashes is a place where god sees everything, because of the large billboard with the dry in the large glasses on it. 1 1) “It makes me sad because Eve never seen such- beautiful shirts before” Importance: This quote shows you how Daisy is very materialistic. After seeing Gatsby mansion, and finally seeing his bedroom and the mount of money/things he ash, she becomes overwhelmed. Symbolism: The shirts symbolize for something of the bigger picture. They symbolize a rainbow, especially because it is raining outside.
The shirts show her how Gatsby become wealthy for her to love him because he knows that she is materialistic, she starts sobbing because she knows she can never return the ardent love for him. 12) ‘They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the sees they had made” Importance: Tom is careless because he goes out and cheats on Daisy with myrtle, while Daisy is careless because she lets Tom go out and snoop.
It makes you wonder how Gatsby received his endless amounts of money he seems to have. 4) “If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay… You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock. ” Importance: This quote shows how Gatsby is so in love with Daisy that he bought a house right across the bay from her, just so he could see the green light at the end of her dock. It’s not quite enough for him, but its just enough to keep that hope their in Gatsby mind.
Symbolism: The green light is a symbolic representation of Daisy, Which is everything that Gatsby desires. It shows how much he truly loves her. 15) ‘With every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he eve that up, and only the dean dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, UN- despairingly, toward the lost voice across the room” Importance: This quote shows how when Gatsby is speaking to Daisy, he realizes that she will never be his, the way that she was before.
He realizes that he had lost her for good, and that she was never coming back again. Symbolism: This quote shows an illusion. It shows how Daisy was all a made up illusion in his mind, and he made her to be greater then what she actually was. Just like the American Dream, his hopes were crushed.