Insights into Characters in "The Great Gatsby
Delve into the intricate personalities of Nick, Gatsby, Daisy, Tom, Myrtle, and others in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel "The Great Gatsby." Explore their relationships, desires, and flaws as they navigate the glamorous yet tumultuous world of the roaring twenties.
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I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Nick
he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward and distinguished nothing except a single green light that might have been the end of a dock.
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Gatsby
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Daisy and Tom
That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen
Speaker: Daisy Character Described: Tom
I told that boy about the icethese people! You have to keep after them all the time! She laughed at me pointlessly.
Speaker: Myrtle Character Described: Myrtle
The fact that he had one [a mistress] was insisted upon wherever he was known. His acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular restaurants with her and, leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting with whomever he knew.
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Tom
I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn't hardly know I wasn't getting into a subway train. All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.
Speaker: Myrtle Character Described: Myrtle
You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody's looking at him. I'll bet he killed a man."
Speaker: Party Guest (yellow dress girl) Character Described: Gatsby
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Nick
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Nick
The day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker: Jordan Character Described: Tom
He was never quite still; there was always a tapping foot somewhere or the impatient opening and closing of a hand.
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Gatsby
I suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all.
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Gatsby
There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency was not enough to him anymore
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Tom
She wascompletely motionless, and with her chin raised a little, as if she ware balancing something on it which was quite likely to fall. If she saw me she gave no hint of it
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Jordan
I decided to go East and learn the bond business. Everybody I knew was in the bond business, so I supposed it could support one more single man.
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Nick
I hope shell be a fool. Thats the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool
Speaker: Daisy Character Described: Daisy
It was a body capable of enormous leverage a cruel body
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Tom
You dont know? I thought everybody knew Tom s got some woman in New York
Speaker: Jordan Character Described: Tom/Jordan
I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Nick
there was an excitement in her voice that men who cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered, Listen
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Daisy
Now dont think my opinion on these matters is final, he seemed to say, just because I m stronger and more of a man than you are
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Tom
I'd never seen a girl so mad about her husband. If he left the room for a minute she'd look around uneasily, and say: "Where's Tom gone?" and wear the most abstracted expression until she saw him coming in the door
Speaker: Jordan Character Described: Daisy
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope
Speaker: Nick Character Described: Nick
