QUOTES IN THE GREAT GATSBY ABOUT THE AMERICAN DREAM

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” – Nick Carraway

“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.” – Nick Carraway

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” – Nick Carraway

“He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it.” – Nick Carraway

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.” – Meyer Wolfshiem

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

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

“He had come a long way… and his dreams must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp them.” – Nick Carraway

“I love New York on summer afternoons when every one’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it—overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.” – Jordan Baker

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

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – Nick Carraway

“The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.” – Nick Carraway DRAKE POSITIVE QUOTES

“He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” – Nick Carraway

“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.” – Nick Carraway

“Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had vanished forever.” – Nick Carraway

“It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America.” – Nick Carraway

“I am one of those who likes to stay up late at night.” – Nick Carraway

“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.” – Nick Carraway

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

“Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock.” – Nick Carraway

“Jay Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” – Nick Carraway

“He looked at me sideways — and I knew why Jordan Baker had believed he was lying. He hurried the phrase ‘educated at Oxford,’ or swallowed it, or choked on it, as though it had bothered him before.” – Nick Carraway