QUOOOTES

Tom-Alcohol- Can't recapture the past? Of course you can! 

"Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table... They weren't happy... yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 7, pg 138

“In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins liquors …” Ch. 3, pg 42 (Gatsby’s house)

“Meanwhile Tom brought out a bottle of whiskey from a locked bureau door. “ Ch. 2, pg. 31

“…and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside” Ch. 3 pg. 46

“She had a bottle of Sauterne in one hand and a letter in the other.” Chap. 4, pg.74 (daisy’s wedding)

“I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people.” Ch. 5, pg 87

“He owned some drug-store, a lot of drug-stores.He built them up himself. “ Pg 104


" i hadn't been there two minutes when somebody brought Tom Buchanan in for a drink. I was startled, naturally, but the really surprising thing was that it hadn't happened before." pg 98


" Tom was evidently perturbed at Daisy's running around alone, for on the following Saturday night he came with her to Gatby's party." pg 100

“Gatsby took his drink. ‘They certainly look cool, ’he said, with visible tension.” Pg 112

“I don’t give big parties. I suppose you’ve got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends-in the modern world.” Pg 124

“The drug-store business was just a small change, continued Tom slowly, but you’ve got something on now that Water’s afraid to tell me about.” Pg 128

“…tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And one fine morning-

So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past.” Pg 172


(“…paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.” Pg 153)