The Great Gatsby Quotes

“After boasting of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.”

• Nick Carraway
• Daisy Buchanan
• Jay Gatsby
• Jorday Baker

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“I’m p-paralyzed with happiness.”

• Daisy Buchanan
• Jordan Baker
• Jay Gatsby
• Myrtle Wilson

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“The whole town is desolate. All the cars have the left rear wheel painted black as a mourning wreath, and there’s a persistent wail all night along the north shore.”

• Nick Carraway
• Meyer Wolfsheim
• Tom Buchanan
• Daisy Buchanan

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“I’m absolutely in training.”

• Jordan Baker
• Tom Buchanan
• Jay Gatsby
• George Wilson

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Oh, I’ll stay in the East, don’t you worry. I’d be a God damned fool to live anywhere else.”

• Tom Buchanan
• Jay Gatsby
• Nick Carraway
• Daisy Buchanan

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great big, hulking physical specimen of a—“

• Daisy Buchanan
• Myrtle Wilson
• Jordan Baker
• Catherine

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“You remind me of a—of a rose, an absolute rose. Doesn’t he?”

• Daisy Buchanan
• Jordan Baker
• Jay Gatsby
• Catherine

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“I want to get one of those dogs. I want to get one for the apartment. They’re nice to have—a dog.”

• Myrtle Wilson
• Daisy Buchanan
• Catherine
• Jordan Baker

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“It’s just a crazy old thing. I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like.”

• Myrtle Wilson
• Daisy Buchanan
• Jordan Baker
• Catherine

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“Neither of them can stand the person they’re married to. Can’t stand them.”

• Catherine
• Myrtle Wilson
• Nick Carraway
• Jordan Baker

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3