The Great Gatsby (OCR A Level English Literature): Flashcards
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Fill in the gap: "They were ＿＿＿＿＿ people, Tom and Daisy"
Nick Carraway, Chapter 9
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Fill in the gap: "They were ＿＿＿＿＿ people, Tom and Daisy"
Nick Carraway, Chapter 9
Answer: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy"
Fill in the gap: "Anything can happen now that we've slid over this ＿＿＿＿＿"
Nick Carraway, Chapter 4
Answer: "Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge"
Fill in the gap: "a beautiful little ＿＿＿＿＿"
Daisy Buchanan, Chapter 1
Answer: "a beautiful little fool"
Key quote: "He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling"
Nick Carraway, Chapter 1
Analysis
Gatsby reaches towards something he cannot touch, and the gesture holds the whole novel in one image. His trembling shows how much hope and longing the American Dream costs him.
Key quote: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired"
Nick Carraway, Chapter 4
Analysis
Nick divides everyone into people chasing something and people worn out by the chase. The list suggests the American Dream leaves no other way to live.
Key quote: "Can't repeat the past?... Why of course you can!"
Jay Gatsby, Chapter 6
Analysis
Gatsby believes his money can buy back the years he lost with Daisy. The novel slowly dismantles that illusion, because wealth cannot undo time or class.
Key quote: "They're a rotten crowd... You're worth the whole damn bunch put together"
Nick Carraway, Chapter 8
Analysis
The word "rotten" names the moral decay hidden underneath the wealth. Nick separates Gatsby's worth from the class he spent his life trying to join.
Key quote: "I'm going to make a list of all the things I've got to get. A massage and a wave, and a collar for the dog"
Myrtle Wilson, Chapter 2
Analysis
Myrtle's list of small luxuries treats shopping as a way of rising in the world. The trivial items show how materialism stands in for real social class.
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