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1
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Marius Bewley [daisy]

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“[Daisy has] an emptiness that we see curdling into the viciousness of a monstrous moral indifference as the story unfolds”

2
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Alfred Kazin

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“[Daisy is] vulgar and inhuman”

3
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Leland S Person

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“No woman, no human being, could ever approximate the platonic ideal he has invented”

4
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Marius Bewley [dream]

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“The Great Gatsby is an exploration of the American Dream as it exists in a corrupt period”

5
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“furniture…”

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“furniture entirely too large.”

6
Q

“So we beat on…”

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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

7
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“beautiful…”

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“beautiful little fool”

8
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“Angry, and…”

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“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

9
Q

“And I like…”

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“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

10
Q

“one of those…”

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“one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it”

11
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“Can’t repeat…”

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“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”

12
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“blue…”

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“blue gardens”

13
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“They were…”

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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy”

14
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“You can’t…”

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“You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.”

15
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“So we drove…”

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“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”

16
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“silver…”

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“silver idols”

17
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“you always…”

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“you always look so cool”

18
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“Gatsby believed…”

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“Gatsby believed in the green light”

19
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“Her voice…”

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“Her voice is full of money”

20
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“I am one of the…”

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“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

21
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“Dishonesty…”

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“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.”

22
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“I’ve been…”

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“I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated!”

23
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“I wasn’t actually…”

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“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity”

24
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“just remember…”

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“just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

25
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‘You’re worth…”

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‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

26
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“retreated…”

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“retreated back into their money”

27
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“Daisy…”

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“Daisy tumbled short of his dreams”

28
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“You…”

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“You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.”

29
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Mason Scisco

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“he transforms Daisy herself into a thing”