Great Gatsby Quotes About Gambling
I lived at West Egg, the – well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. My house was at the very tip of the egg, only fifty yards from the Sound, and squeezed between two huge places that rented for twelve or fifteen thousand a season. The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard … My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor’s lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires – all for eighty dollars a month.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby Quotes About Money
The Great Gatsby Quotes Jay Gatsby: I knew that when I kissed this girl I would be forever wed to her. The The Great Gatsby quotes below all refer to the symbol of The Green Light and the Color Green. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ). Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes. The following quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are some of the most recognizable lines in American literature.The novel, which follows the pursuit of pleasure by the wealthy elites of the New York Jazz Age, deals with themes of love, idealism, nostalgia, and illusion. Quotes tagged as 'great-gatsby' Showing 1-16 of 16 “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.