Preview

The Great Gatsby: Citing Quotes

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
1764 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
The Great Gatsby: Citing Quotes
Page (2 of 4) Quotes: 1 2 3 4
How we cite the quotes:
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote 4
"When I said you were a friend of Tom's, he started to abandon the whole idea. He doesn't know very much about Tom, though he says he's read a Chicago paper for years just on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy's name." (4.152)

Love? Or stalker-ish obsession? Do you think he has some creepy stalker wall in a secret room of his house? We wouldn't be surprised.

Chapter 4 Love
Nick Carraway> Quote 5
He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs. (5.112)

We've all been there, right? (Or we can imagine it.) Your crush finally agrees to go out with you, and somehow everything is different. The whole world seems to disappear, and it's just the two of you prancing through fields and ignoring the imminent destruction of the universe. Or the stairs.

Chapter 5 Love
Daisy Buchanan> Quote 6
Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.

"They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the think folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before." (5.118-119)Page (2 of 4) Quotes: 1 2 3 4
How we cite the quotes:
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote 4
"When I said you were a friend of Tom's, he started to abandon the whole idea. He doesn't know very much about Tom, though he says he's read a Chicago paper for years just on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy's name." (4.152)

Love? Or stalker-ish obsession? Do you think he has some creepy stalker wall in a secret room of his house? We

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    5. “‘Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’ shouted Mrs. Wilson. ‘I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai—’ Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.” (p. 41)…

    • 1734 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    “You two start on home, Daisy, in Mr. Gatsby’s car” (Fitzgerald 134). If Tom never made Daisy…

    • 645 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Great Gatsby

    • 592 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Emily Rodriguez Ms.Philbrook Eng II 8/19/13 “Can‘t repeat the past? He cried incredulously. Why of course you can!‘ He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand. I‘m going to fix everything just the way it was before, “he said, nodding determinedly. She‘ll see......” “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy” (Pg 110)…

    • 592 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    ● Collects newspaper clippings about Daisy ○ “he says he’s read a Chicago paper for years just on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy's name” (79)…

    • 897 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Fitzgerald uses Tom’s characteristics and actions within Tom and Daisy’s relationship to convey negative feelings about his character to the reader. Their relationship involves Tom abusing and shouting at Daisy creating an instant dislike to him. Daisy accuses Tom of ill-treating her saying “I know you didn’t mean to, but you did do it. That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a ——”. The fact his own wife described him as having a bully like appearance suggests he doesn’t possess the attributes of a pleasant person especially when compared to the way Daisy describes other people she loves like Gatsby who to her resembles "the advertisement of the man” implying through the symbolism that Gatsby is a flawless man in every way which reflects the modernity of the age.…

    • 692 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Daisy Buchanan is a questionable character who, in ways, lets the reader down. Quickly, the author reveals Daisy’s character when he announces that Tom, Daisy’s husband, has “some woman in New York” (Fitzgerald 15). This news is startling because Daisy knows about the other woman. At this point, the reader can start to wonder what kind of person Daisy is for having knowledge of the affair, but doing absolutely nothing about it. At first the reader could see Daisy as this beautiful, elegant woman, but is then let down given the fact that Daisy is doing nothing about her husband’s affair.…

    • 827 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white” [130]. How does Tom’s expression of such attitudes illuminate his character, his relations with Daisy, and his sense of his…

    • 743 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Similar to Jordan, Tom Buchanan’s dishonesty allows him to achieve a desired result, yet he differs in the sense he admits the truth when necessary to preserve his relationships. On their way to New York, Tom introduces Nick to his mistress Myrtle, confirming Jordan’s earlier gossip. Due to their state of drunkenness, Myrtle’s sister Catherine declares “it’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s Catholic, and they don’t believe in a divorce.” Confirmed to be untrue by Nick, this false information spread by Tom prompts Myrtle into presuming he cares for her when in fact he does not. He uses brute force to cease her from mentioning Daisy’s name while replenishing her dream that she has finally found a man who posses the ability to…

    • 164 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    “It doesn’t matter anymore. Just tell him the truth ---- that you never loved him----and it’s all wiped out forever.” She looked at him blindly. “Why----how could I love him----possibly? “You never loved him.” She hesitated. Her eyes fell on Jordan and me with a sort of appeal, as though she realized at last what she was doing---- and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all. But it was done now. It was too late. “I never loved him,” she said, with perceptible reluctance. […] “Oh you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now----isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob hopelessly “I did love him once----but I loved you too.” […] “I want to speak Daisy alone,” he insisted. “She’s all excited now -----” “Even alone I can’t say I never loved Tom,” she admitted in a pitiful voice. “It wouldn’t be true.”…

    • 1766 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry saying in a muffled voice, "It makes me sad because I've never seen such – such beautiful shirts before". Daisy was overwhelmed by the array of beautiful shirts in all colours, textures, patterns, and…

    • 718 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Parker Helms Lit & Comp2 Mead 3/22/13 The Missing Girl I saw Gatsby walk across his freshly cutgrass and on to my over grown, weed infested, disordered mess I call my lawn. He made his way to my door. When I answered it he said cheerfully “Hello old sport would you like to come to my place and have a drink”. I would love to I said. Once we got to his estate we took a seat on his handcrafted cathedra. We started to talk about the war we both served in together. He had spoken about how he had meet Daisy before the war and how they had loved each other. “Old sport once I got drafted to the army we wrote to each other every agonizing lonely day. The letters would come in and go out at a constant flow. She would always express her love and her desire to me to return at any moment. After a while the letters came back slowly and soon enough she had stopped replying. I replied with a troublesome affection. He went on, but one day I had gotten a letter. I was so exited it was from Daisy; I couldn’t wait to see what she had said to me and what was going on in her life. At that moment his face was absent of any amusement, he said. But once I opened the letter she had said, “Gatsby how I have missed you I had written you a letter but it had gotten ruined in a bathtub so here I go I will try again. Since you’ve been gone I have meet someone else. His name is Tom. We had a baby girl named Pammy. She is the cutest thing. I love you Gatsby I just couldn’t wait knowing that you could die at any moment or think the war would never end. So I had to move on.” As I looked against Gatsby I noticed that there was a shine in his eye and a drop falling down his cheek. At that time I also noticed that Gatsby was reading the actual letter and as I was looking he was folding it so precise and placed it back into his pocket. He wiped his tears and looked at me and said, “You know old sport I still love this girl, she stole my heart”. I didn’t want to be rude but I had to use the…

    • 804 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    • Tom’s reaction to the sudden realization that Daisy and Gatsby are having an affair reveals his jealousy of Gatsby. This piece of knowledge only furthers Tom’s hate towards him. At this point Tom’s hatred of Gatsby is so great that when he is approached by Wilson for the identity of the driver that…

    • 1631 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    To support your response, please incorporate direct quotes from the story. After each quote, simply include the page number on which it appears in parenthesis. For example: (22).…

    • 333 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Literary Luminary

    • 511 Words
    • 3 Pages

    "Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing in impassioned voices whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy's name. "Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!" shouted Mrs. Wilson "I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai----" Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand." (Fitzgerald 37)…

    • 511 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    While daisy is married, she begins to have a love affair with Gatsby. Which she chooses to carelessly show and not to disregards what others think of it. For example, “as he left the room again she got up, and went over to Gatsby, pulling his face down, kissing him on the mouth” (122). She easily got her husband out of the room, so she could continue to show her affection to Gatsby. She even acted as if she didn’t know her husband at all. When Nick scolded Daisy and told her to not bring Tom. Daisy innocently said, “Who’s tom?”(88).…

    • 665 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays