Chapter 3

--"He smiled understandingly..." (48)

Chapter 4

--"Even Gatsby could happen, without any particular wonder" (69)

"Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor" (78)

Chapter 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. (91)

--"Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever..." (93)

--"As I went to say goodbye..." (95)

Chapter 6

--"The truth was that Jay Gatsby...sprang from his Platonic conception of himself..." (98)

--"But the rest offended her..." (107)

--"One autumn night, five years before..." (110)

Chapter 7

--"That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money - that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it...High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl..." (120)

--"Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small reluctant hand. Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don't think he had ever really believed in its existence before" (117)

--"But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible..." (134)

Chapter 8

--"...'Jay Gatsby' had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out" (148)

--"He found her excitingly desirable" (148) - the whole paragraph/story

--"It excited him, too, that many men had already loved Daisy - it increased her value in his eyes" (149)

--"They're a rotten crowd...You're worth the whole damn bunch put together" (154)

--"God sees everything" (160)

--"...he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about..." (161)

Chapter 9

--"I found myself on Gatsby's side, and alone" (164)

--"...I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all" (165)

--"'Look here, old sport, you've got to get somebody for me. You've got to try hard. I can't go through this alone'" (165).

--"It was a madman...he must have been mad" (167)

--"'When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out. When I was a young man it was different - if a friend of mine died, no matter how, I stuck with them to the end. You may think that's sentimental, but I mean it - to the bitter end'" (171)

--"'Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it...5:00-6:00'" (173)

--"Dimly I heard someone murmur, 'Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on'" (175)

--"I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all - Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life" (176)

--"After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction" (176)

--"I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. 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 mess they had made..." (179)

Intensity

Jealousy

Manipulation

Isolation

Sabotage

Belittling

Guilting

Volatility

Deflecting Responsibility

Betrayal