JAY GATSBY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Major Jay Gatsby, I read, For Valour Extraordinary.
2 I hadn't asked Jordan to tea in order to discuss Mr. Jay Gatsby.
3 The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.
4 He was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man.
5 So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.
6 His name was Jay Gatsby and I didn't lay eyes on him again for over four years--even after I'd met him on Long Island I didn't realize it was the same man.
7 He had seen me several times and had intended to call on me long before but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it--signed Jay Gatsby in a majestic hand.
8 However glorious might be his future as Jay Gatsby, he was at present a penniless young man without a past, and at any moment the invisible cloak of his uniform might slip from his shoulders.
9 It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody--told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice and the long secret extravaganza was played out.
10 It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a row-boat, pulled out to the Tuolomee and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour.