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I'm trying to find a quote where Gatsby talks to Nick privately. he says something like.. i hope you don't get the wrong idea of me and says some other things. Where is this quote?
I also need quotes that can help me write my paper on the American Dream and Gatsby.
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Great Gatsby book quotes?
Sebastian
I forgot my book at school - and desperately need 2 quotes from the Great Gatsby that I can't find online - I know they are in the book because I had them annotated. The first quote I need is somewhere in the book that shows that Gatsby had never actually read any of his books, I think it mentions the bindings of the books never having been cracked. The 2nd quote (or quotes) I need have to do with the rumors that were talked about at Gatsby's party. Just in general, to show that gatsby was like his books in that he wasn't so easily read as a person. THANKS IN ADVANCE!
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First quote is said by Owl-Eyes, the guest at Gatsby's party--about 1/4 of the way through Chapter III. He's looking at the books in Gatsby's library and sees admiringly, that Gatsby hasn't cut the pages (as one often had to do in older editions of books, if one wanted to read them):
âSee!â he cried triumphantly. âItâs a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fellaâs a regular Belasco. Itâs a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, tooâdidnât cut the pages.
Rumors abound throughout the book. In Chapter II, at Myrtle Wilson's get-together, we hear:
âReally? I was down there at a party about a month ago. At a man named Gatsbyâs. Do you know him?â
âI live next door to him.â
âWell, they say heâs a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelmâs. Thatâs where all his money comes from.â
âReally?â
She nodded.
âIâm scared of him. Iâd hate to have him get anything on me.â
And at the first party, after meeting the man, Nick tries to find out more about him from Jordan Baker:
When he was gone I turned immediately to Jordanâconstrained to assure her of my surprise. I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.
âWho is he?â I demanded.
âDo you know?â
âHeâs just a man named Gatsby.â
âWhere is he from, I mean? And what does he do?â
âNow youâre started on the subject,â she answered with a wan smile.
âWell,âhe told me once he was an Oxford man.â
A dim background started to take shape behind him, but at her next remark it faded away.
âHowever, I donât believe it.â
âWhy not?â
âI donât know,â she insisted, âI just donât think he went there.â
First quote is said by Owl-Eyes, the guest at Gatsby's party--about 1/4 of the way through Chapter III. He's looking at the books in Gatsby's library and sees admiringly, that Gatsby hasn't cut the pages (as one often had to do in older editions of books, if one wanted to read them):
âSee!â he cried triumphantly. âItâs a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fellaâs a regular Belasco. Itâs a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, tooâdidnât cut the pages.
Rumors abound throughout the book. In Chapter II, at Myrtle Wilson's get-together, we hear:
âReally? I was down there at a party about a month ago. At a man named Gatsbyâs. Do you know him?â
âI live next door to him.â
âWell, they say heâs a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelmâs. Thatâs where all his money comes from.â
âReally?â
She nodded.
âIâm scared of him. Iâd hate to have him get anything on me.â
And at the first party, after meeting the man, Nick tries to find out more about him from Jordan Baker:
When he was gone I turned immediately to Jordanâconstrained to assure her of my surprise. I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.
âWho is he?â I demanded.
âDo you know?â
âHeâs just a man named Gatsby.â
âWhere is he from, I mean? And what does he do?â
âNow youâre started on the subject,â she answered with a wan smile.
âWell,âhe told me once he was an Oxford man.â
A dim background started to take shape behind him, but at her next remark it faded away.
âHowever, I donât believe it.â
âWhy not?â
âI donât know,â she insisted, âI just donât think he went there.â
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